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All Quotes by author - Lou Holtz

" Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. "

" After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent. "

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

" All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them. "

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

" An agent won't help you get drafted higher, won't make you win more games, and won't make you faster or stronger. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired. "

" Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by. "

" 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. "

" Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them. "

" Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated. "

" ESPN is a great organization to work for. "

" Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it. "

" Football coaches don't have real problems. "

" For victory in life, we've got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven. "

" God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way. "

" God looks after children, animals and idiots. "

" 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. "

" How do you know what it's like to be stupid if you've never been smart? "

" How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser. "

" I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. "

" I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life. "

" 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. "

" I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary. "

" I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. God knows what's best for us, though, so there's no need to worry when things don't go how we originally wanted them to go. "

" I don't drink water, haven't drank water in 40 years. "

" I don't exercise. "

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