I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
LOU HOLTZIf you made me the national commissioner of football, I’d tell you one thing that I would mandate.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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We had no refrigerator, no shower or tub, and no privacy. My parents shared the bedroom with my sister and me.
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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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I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.
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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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But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.
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I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.
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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
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It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
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The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.
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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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If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.
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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
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My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn’t much, so to get $300 more per year.
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If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.
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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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