On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
LOU HOLTZI’m an old man, and all my life I’ve said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it’s a national school.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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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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One thing about me is I try to be honest.
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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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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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If you made me the national commissioner of football, I’d tell you one thing that I would mandate.
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Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word.
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We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.
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Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
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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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I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.
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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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Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.
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In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges.
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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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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.
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