I am very much in favor of redshirting, but not at Notre Dame. But there’s no doubt about it. It puts us at a huge disadvantage.
LOU HOLTZVirtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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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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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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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 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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No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.
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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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If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.
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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 used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
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If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.
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When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.
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Football coaches don’t have real problems.
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When all is said and done, more is said than done.
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Everybody from the Big Ten is going to play the ACC. Everybody from the Big East is going to play the Pac-10.
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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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I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age.
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I’m so old, I don’t buy green bananas any more.
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You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.
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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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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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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
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ESPN is a great organization to work for.
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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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God knows what’s best for us, though, so there’s no need to worry when things don’t go how we originally wanted them to go.
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God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.
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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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