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.’
LOU HOLTZMy wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.
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I’ve followed Notre Dame football since 1946, when I listened on the radio and Johnny Lujack tackled Doc Blanchard in the open field to preserve a 0-0 tie.
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Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.
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When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.
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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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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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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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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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I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.
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Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.
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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.
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If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.
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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
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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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The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.
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I’m no genius.
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I’m proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It’s a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.
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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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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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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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Notre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California.
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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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But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.
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If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.
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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
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