I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.
LOU HOLTZCoaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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The second Saturday in September, we’re going to have conference day. Everybody from the SEC plays a Big 12 team.
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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 am very much in favor of redshirting, but not at Notre Dame. But there’s no doubt about it. It puts us at a huge disadvantage.
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You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.
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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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I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.
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Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.
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ESPN is a great organization to work for.
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I look like I have beriberi and scurvy.
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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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You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.
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An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.
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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
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Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.
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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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