You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.
LOU HOLTZWhen I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.
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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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Notre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California.
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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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The second Saturday in September, we’re going to have conference day. Everybody from the SEC plays a Big 12 team.
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For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.
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Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
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God knows what’s best for us, though, so there’s no need to worry when things don’t go how we originally wanted them to go.
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I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.
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No one has ever drowned in sweat.
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ESPN is a great organization to work for.
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It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.
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The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously.
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My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.
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The University of Notre Dame does not redshirt, and I endorse that policy completely.
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I give opinions, not advice.
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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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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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No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.
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Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely.
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Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win.
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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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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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When all is said and done, more is said than done.
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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 can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
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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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