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 HOLTZI do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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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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Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely.
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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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Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word.
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Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.
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I don’t exercise.
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An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.
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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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I’m an old man, and all my life I’ve said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it’s a national school.
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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 was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that’s all I ever was associated with.
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The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously.
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I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.
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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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It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
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