As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that’s all you would read about in the papers all over the country.
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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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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To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.
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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’m no genius.
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Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
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I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age.
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When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.
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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 Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously.
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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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You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.
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This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.
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I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.
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Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.
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We had no refrigerator, no shower or tub, and no privacy. My parents shared the bedroom with my sister and me.
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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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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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God looks after children, animals and idiots.
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But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.
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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
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I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
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I give opinions, not advice.
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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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Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching.
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I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they’d be, what position they’d play and so on.
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Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.
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