Lou Holtz Quotes
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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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You don't go to Notre Dame to learn something, you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.
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I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It's good for them.
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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.
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It's a better view if you're standing up than if you're laying down.
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No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and allows you to take pleasure in the blessings you have been given.
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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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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.
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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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I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
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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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Don't tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the ship in.
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If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide.
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The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.
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In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.
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All my life, I've been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I've come is a bogey.
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Coaching is about helping young people have a chance to succeed. There is no more awesome responsibility than that. One of the greatest honors a person can have is being called 'Coach.'
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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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Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
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I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life.
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Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.
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We will use some kind of option and we will throw the football. I hope it will be at our people.
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Give me a blackboard. I can stop anything on a blackboard.
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As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that's all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.