Lou Holtz Quotes
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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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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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It's a better view if you're standing up than if you're laying down.
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Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.
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It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them. Lou Holtz
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I don't drink water, haven't drank water in 40 years.
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The freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities. If you want to fail yourself - you can - but you cannot do your own thing if you have responsibilities to team members.
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The greatest power God gave us is the power to choose. We have the opportunity to choose whether we're going to act or procrastinate, believe or doubt, pray or curse, help or heal. We also choose whether we're going to be happy or whether we're going to be sad.
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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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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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The price of LEADERSHIP is RESPONSIBILITY....and part of that responsibility is to STAY POSITIVE whether you feel like it or not.
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Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.
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It's the extra effort after you have done your best that creates victory.
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The next flag they plant will be all white, and it'll be surrender.
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It's good to be successful but it's great to be significant
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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.
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I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
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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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If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
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Only the unprepared are overcome by pressure
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We aren't where we want to be; we aren't where we ought to be; but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be.
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I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.
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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by
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One day you are drinking the wine, and they next day you are picking the grapes.