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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

You

Saturday

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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. "

Lou Holtz

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People

" If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals. "

" I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care. "

" 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. "

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

" Nothing on this earth is standing still. It's either growing or it's dying. No matter if it's a tree or a human being. "

" Our cellar home had a kitchen and a combination bedroom and half bath, which meant we had a sink next to the bed. We had no refrigerator, no shower or tub, and no privacy. My parents shared the bedroom with my sister and me. "

Lou Holtz

Home

Kitchen

" I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. "

" In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities. "

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

" Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude. "

" I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression. "

" 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. "

" You don't go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody. "

Lou Holtz

You

Notre Dame

" 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. "

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

" Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It's the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things. "

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

" You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance. "

" I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that's all I ever was associated with. "

" When all is said and done, more is said than done. "

Lou Holtz

Done

Said

" The key to winning is choosing to do God's will and loving others with all you've got. "

" 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. "

" When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be. "

" I don't exercise. "

Lou Holtz

Exercise

" 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. "

" If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback. "

Lou Holtz

Woods

Football

" My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for. "

" I just have an enthusiasm for life. "

" I'm so old, I don't buy green bananas any more. "

Lou Holtz

Any

Old