When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.
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More Lou Holtz Quotes
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Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.
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I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it’s not always in the way you expect.
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In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate.
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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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We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on.
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I’m so old, I don’t buy green bananas any more.
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I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age.
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After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.
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It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
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When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.
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We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends.
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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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We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.
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When all is said and done, more is said than done.
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We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.
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Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
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Notre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California.
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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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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
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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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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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If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.
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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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The University of Notre Dame does not redshirt, and I endorse that policy completely.
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If you made me the national commissioner of football, I’d tell you one thing that I would mandate.
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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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