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.
LOU HOLTZMy 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 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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Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.
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I’ve followed Notre Dame football since 1946, when I listened on the radio and Johnny Lujack tackled Doc Blanchard in the open field to preserve a 0-0 tie.
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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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I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age.
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On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
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When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.
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I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
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You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
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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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When I didn’t collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.
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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 do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it’s not always in the way you expect.
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Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.
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I’m an old man, and all my life I’ve said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it’s a national school.
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God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.
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An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.
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I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that’s all I ever was associated with.
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Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.
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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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See, winners embrace hard work.
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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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If he’s got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don’t hire him.
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Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.
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We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends.
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Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely.
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