You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.
LOU HOLTZYou aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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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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Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.
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Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.
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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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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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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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On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
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All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.
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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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Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching.
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How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
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I don’t drink water, haven’t drank water in 40 years.
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Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.
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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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