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.
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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Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.
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God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.
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I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.
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I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course.
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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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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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No one has ever drowned in sweat.
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No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.
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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
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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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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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God looks after children, animals and idiots.
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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 – 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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The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.
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