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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. "

Lou Holtz

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Golf

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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. "

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" No one has ever drowned in sweat. "

" ESPN is a great organization to work for. "

" 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 the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin. "

" We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime. "

" 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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Environment

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. "

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

" 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. "

" Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something. "

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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. "

" I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. "

" 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. "

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

" The University of Notre Dame does not redshirt, and I endorse that policy completely. I am very much in favor of redshirting, but not at Notre Dame. But there's no doubt about it. It puts us at a huge disadvantage. "

Lou Holtz

Doubt

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

Lou Holtz

God

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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. "

" 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. "

" See, winners embrace hard work. "

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

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

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

" I give opinions, not advice. "

" When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least. "

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

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