After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.
LOU HOLTZAbility is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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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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How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
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I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest.
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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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I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
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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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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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In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges.
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If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.
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I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.
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My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn’t much, so to get $300 more per year.
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I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.
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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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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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The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
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