If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.
LOU HOLTZI agreed to coach the golf team. I didn’t even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.
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You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.
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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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I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.
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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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After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.
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I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
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I believe – we all pay taxes. I’m happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That’s going to bother you.
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It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.
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If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.
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One thing about me is I try to be honest.
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I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn’t even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.
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In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges.
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Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.
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We had no refrigerator, no shower or tub, and no privacy. My parents shared the bedroom with my sister and me.
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I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.
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All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.
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My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.
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I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it’s not always in the way you expect.
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I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.
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I’m so old, I don’t buy green bananas any more.
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In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate.
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My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.
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At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day.
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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
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All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.
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