I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!
LOU HOLTZNo matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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My wife looked at me and said: ‘Boy, you are skinny, aren’t you?’ I said: ‘Honey, I’d like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.’
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Everybody from the Big Ten is going to play the ACC. Everybody from the Big East is going to play the Pac-10.
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You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.
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Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
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The University of Notre Dame does not redshirt, and I endorse that policy completely.
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I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.
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Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.
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I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.
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Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word.
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A lifetime contract for a coach means if you’re ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can’t fire you.
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I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
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My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.
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See, winners embrace hard work.
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I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.
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I am very much in favor of redshirting, but not at Notre Dame. But there’s no doubt about it. It puts us at a huge disadvantage.
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