When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.
LOU HOLTZTo win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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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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No one has ever drowned in sweat.
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We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.
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My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.
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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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I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it’s not always in the way you expect.
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Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
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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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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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It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.
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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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I look like I have beriberi and scurvy.
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If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.
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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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