I believe – we all pay taxes. I’m happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That’s going to bother you.
LOU HOLTZIt’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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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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Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.
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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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In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges.
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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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One thing about me is I try to be honest.
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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 believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.
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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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My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.
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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
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Football coaches don’t have real problems.
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Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.
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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.’
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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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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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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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For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.
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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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The second Saturday in September, we’re going to have conference day. Everybody from the SEC plays a Big 12 team.
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Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
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When I didn’t collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.
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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
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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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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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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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