I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!
LOU HOLTZAfter winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
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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 the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.
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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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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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You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.
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No one has ever drowned in sweat.
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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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All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.
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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’m no genius.
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We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends.
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On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
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I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.
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If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.
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Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.
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Everybody from the Big Ten is going to play the ACC. Everybody from the Big East is going to play the Pac-10.
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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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Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
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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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I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.
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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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If you made me the national commissioner of football, I’d tell you one thing that I would mandate.
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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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Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.
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We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.
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