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 HOLTZI think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.
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I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.
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The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.
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I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.
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ESPN is a great organization to work for.
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I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest.
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Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.
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To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.
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Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
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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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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.
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At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day.
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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
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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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I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it’s not always in the way you expect.
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No one has ever drowned in sweat.
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The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously.
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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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If he’s got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don’t hire him.
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All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.
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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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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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No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.
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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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The University of Notre Dame does not redshirt, and I endorse that policy completely.
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