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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
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Don't tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the ship in.
Lou Holtz
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All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.
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One reason I won't compromise is because I believe honesty helps you win over the long haul. You can win a game tomorrow and lose a team. You can lose a game tomorrow and win a football team.
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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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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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It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
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God looks after children, animals and idiots.
Lou Holtz
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I've never seen the yellow light, umm the yellow line be wrong.
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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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No, but you can see it from here.
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All you need is something to say, and a burning desire to say it... it doesn't matter where your hands are.
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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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People eyeing you as a potential leader tend to ask three questions: Are you committed? Do you care about me? Can I trust you?
Lou Holtz
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To my wife 'I told you I was sick'.
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If you make a fist and hold it for two hours, you won't be able to pick up a glass because you'll be so weak. Let's stay loose. Let's have fun.
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It's a better view if you're standing up than if you're laying down.
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Everybody needs four things in life: Something to do, someone to love, someone to believe in and something to hope for.
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I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.
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All I've seen agents do is talk players into having bad senior seasons because they're trying to keep themselves from getting injured.
Lou Holtz
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Remember this. Bear Bryant retired at age 69, and he died 28 days after he stopped coaching. If you don't have something, and a purpose in your life, you're gonna die.
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After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.
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You always have to prepare for the obstacles that are going to come. Consequently, when they do come, it doesn't affect you mentally near as much as when you're unprepared for them.
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You must have dreams and goals if you are ever going to achieve anything in this world.
Lou Holtz