Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
LOU HOLTZI could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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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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My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.
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The University of Notre Dame does not redshirt, and I endorse that policy completely.
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I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.
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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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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 look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they’d be, what position they’d play and so on.
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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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Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.
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Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
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Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.
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I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.
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We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on.
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When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.
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If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.
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