Lou Holtz Quotes

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Lou Holtz

Profession : Coach

Birth : January 6, 1937

I don't think there's been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.

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My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.

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Football coaches don't have real problems.

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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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When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.

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I look like I have beriberi and scurvy.

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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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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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I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that's for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn't play golf.

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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 don't exercise.

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ESPN is a great organization to work for.

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I just have an enthusiasm for life.

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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. 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. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.

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A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.

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I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

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If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

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Had I been a great athlete, I'm not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

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Notre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California.

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When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

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