Lou Holtz Quotes

I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

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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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If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him.

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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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Actually, all I ever wanted to be was the best in my field.

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If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you are doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking.

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Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time.

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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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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 my life, I've been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I've come is a bogey.

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Ya know, Hitler was a great leader, too.

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The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

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My athletes always follow my advice... unless it conflicts with what that they want to do.

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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?

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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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Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.

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Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

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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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You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

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In this world you're either growing or you're dying so get in motion and grow.

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