In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate.
LOU HOLTZEverybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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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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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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The University of Notre Dame does not redshirt, and I endorse that policy completely.
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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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If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.
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Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.
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You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
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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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When I didn’t collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.
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My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.
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To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.
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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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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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I’m no genius.
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My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.
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