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.
LOU HOLTZWhen I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
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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 don’t think there’s been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.
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I’ve followed Notre Dame football since 1946, when I listened on the radio and Johnny Lujack tackled Doc Blanchard in the open field to preserve a 0-0 tie.
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Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.
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The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.
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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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God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.
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If you made me the national commissioner of football, I’d tell you one thing that I would mandate.
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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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No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.
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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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Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching.
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My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.
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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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