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.’
LOU HOLTZI’m no genius.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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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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I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.
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I give opinions, not advice.
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At home I have a copy of the April 21, 1986, issue of ‘Sports Illustrated.’ I’m on the cover with the blurb, ‘Can Lou Do It?’ I’d just arrived at Notre Dame, and with spring football underway, I was the focal point of that week’s coverage.
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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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I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.
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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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The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
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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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I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
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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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Football coaches don’t have real problems.
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Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.
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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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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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