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.
LOU HOLTZI’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.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
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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 Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.
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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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Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.
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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 look like I have beriberi and scurvy.
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I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.
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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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I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.
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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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Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
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At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day.
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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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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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