For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.
LOU HOLTZAn agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.
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Everybody from the Big Ten is going to play the ACC. Everybody from the Big East is going to play the Pac-10.
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I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!
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I give opinions, not advice.
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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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This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.
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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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I look like I have beriberi and scurvy.
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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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In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely.
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I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
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Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win.
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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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I’m no genius.
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We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends.
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How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
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If he’s got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don’t hire him.
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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.
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We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on.
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Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching.
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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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When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.
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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
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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 also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest.
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God knows what’s best for us, though, so there’s no need to worry when things don’t go how we originally wanted them to go.
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