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I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.
Lou Holtz / Football Coach
Age
Believe
Four
Needs
Life Love Hope
Everybody
Things
Course
Regardless
Something
To Love
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There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.
Lou Holtz / Football Coach
Differences
Sixty Minutes
Twenties
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We are not going to win because you have a new head coach, any more than you are going to fix a flat tire by changing the driver. We will win the minute all of us get rid of excuses as to why we can't win and stop wallowing in self-pity.
Lou Holtz / Football Coach
Self
Tire
Winning
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At home I have a copy of the April 21, 1986, issue of 'Sports Illustrated.' I'm on the cover with the blurb, 'Can Lou Do It?' I'd just arrived at Notre Dame, and with spring football underway, I was the focal point of that week's coverage.
Lou Holtz / Football Coach
Sports
April
Focal Point
Football
Notre Dame
Sports Illustrated
Spring
Week
Arrived
Copy
Cover
Dame
Focal
Illustrated
Issue
Point
Underway
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We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. 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.'
Lou Holtz / Football Coach
Bathing
Defects
Honey
Said
Skinny
Boy
Bathing Suit
Getting
Looked
Minor
Remind
Suit
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All winning teams are goal-oriented. Teams like these win consistently because everyone connected with them concentrates on specific objectives. They go about their business with blinders on; nothing will distract them from achieving their aims.
Lou Holtz / Football Coach
Business
Sports
Teamwork
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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.
Lou Holtz / Football Coach
Athlete
Country
Decision
Papers
Player
Wonderful Things
Me People Bad
Decision Me People
Athletes
Coach
Frustrate
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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.
Lou Holtz / Football Coach
Opportunity
Believe
Choices
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Your neighbors will make judgments about you based on how your lawn and house look, and people who see you passing will judge you based on how clean you keep your car. It's not always fair, but it has always been true. Appearances matter, so make yours a good one.
Lou Holtz / Football Coach
Car
Judging
People
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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.
Lou Holtz / Football Coach
Advantage
Golf
Golf Course
Spending
Successful
Wonder
Admit
Watched
Coach
How Much
Joe
Play Golf
Summers
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The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail.
Lou Holtz / Football Coach
Leadership
Success
Trust
Work
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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, 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.
Lou Holtz / Football Coach
Jobs
Football
Golf
Mary
Pay
Score
Team
Tournaments
Job
Agreed
Year
Coach
William
Per
Main
Van
Wreck
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The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn't allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.
Lou Holtz / Football Coach
Ability
Focus
Notre Dame
School
Life God Best
Sure
Allow
Sisters
Due
Dame
Encouraged
Except
Fact
Grade
Grade School
Influenced
Tremendously
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After landing his invasion forces on the shores of some country, the sixteenth-century Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes would immediately burn his own boats. He was sending his army a message: "We can't turn back. Either we succeed here or we die here." Excuses were not an option.
Lou Holtz / Football Coach
Army
Country
Invasion
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Do what's right. Be on time, be polite, and be honest; remain free from drugs; and if you have any questions, get out your Bible. 2. Do your best. Mediocrity is unacceptable when you are capable of doing better. 3. Treat others as you want to be treated. Practice love and understanding.
Lou Holtz / Football Coach
Inspirational
Motivational
Practice
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I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care. You’ve got to make a sincere attempt to have the right goals to begin with, then go after them with appropriate effort, and remember that you can’t really achieve anything great without the help of others.
Lou Holtz / Football Coach
Effort
Goal
People
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An agent won't help you get drafted higher, won't make you win more games, and won't make you faster or stronger. They all say they can, but the people who do the drafting don't talk to agents. They talk to coaches, they watch film, they talk to the people who've worked with players. They don't talk to agents.
Lou Holtz / Football Coach
Games
Player
Winning
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If you made me the national commissioner of football, I'd tell you one thing that I would mandate. The second Saturday in September, we're going to have conference day. Everybody from the SEC plays a Big 12 team. Everybody from the Big Ten is going to play the ACC. Everybody from the Big East is going to play the Pac-10.
Lou Holtz / Football Coach
East
Football
One Thing
Saturday
September
Ten
Football Me Day
Commissioner
Conference
Mandate
National
Plays
Sec
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In football, it's the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. 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. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.
Lou Holtz / Football Coach
Football
Golf
Guy
Microcosm
Life Best Football
Job
Charged
Coach
Least
Official
Overlap
Upholding
Way Life
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In adversity, there is opportunity. Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity. I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity. Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.
Lou Holtz / Football Coach
Opportunity
Adversity
Motivation
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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.
Lou Holtz / Football Coach
Age
Average
Balance
Cents
Dollars
Income
Nine
Paper
Profit
Six
Thirty
Twenties
Week
Came
Collect
Customer
Delivered
Every Day
Rest
Families
Per
Owed
Route
Twenty
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