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.
LOU HOLTZLosers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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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 think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
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The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously.
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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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God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.
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You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.
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Football coaches don’t have real problems.
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I don’t exercise.
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For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.
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If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.
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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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I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.
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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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How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?
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Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.
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