I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.
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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If he’s got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don’t hire him.
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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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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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We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on.
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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 man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
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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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Notre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California.
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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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I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.
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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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For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.
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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
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In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges.
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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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