When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.
LOU HOLTZIf 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.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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At home I have a copy of the April 21, 1986, issue of ‘Sports Illustrated.’ I’m on the cover with the blurb, ‘Can Lou Do It?’ I’d just arrived at Notre Dame, and with spring football underway, I was the focal point of that week’s coverage.
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In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely.
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I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.
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We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.
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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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You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.
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When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.
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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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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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When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.
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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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The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
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How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?
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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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