I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.
LOU HOLTZWe had no refrigerator, no shower or tub, and no privacy. My parents shared the bedroom with my sister and me.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.
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To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.
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Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.
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I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.
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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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On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
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I give opinions, not advice.
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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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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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If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.
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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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I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
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I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course.
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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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In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate.
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