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

Lou Holtz

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

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

Lou Holtz

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" My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. "

" 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. "

" I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It's good for them. "

" 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. "

" 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'm an old man, and all my life I've said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it's a national school. "

" 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. "

" We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera. "

" 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

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

" I give opinions, not advice. "

" Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. "

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

" If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today. "

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

Lou Holtz

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

" I just have an enthusiasm for life. "

" 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. "

" I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. "

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

" My wife doesn't even want to spend 2 hours with me. "