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" No one has ever drowned in sweat. "
Lou Holtz
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" I'm so old, I don't buy green bananas any more. "
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" See, winners embrace hard work. "
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" I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. "
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" I'm proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It's a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition. "
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" If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better. "
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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. "
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" Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated. "
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" You don't go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody. "
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" I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It's good for them. "
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" God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way. "
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" In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention. "
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" My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for. "
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" 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. "
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" I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future. "
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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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" 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. "
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God
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" I'm an old man, and all my life I've said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it's a national school. "
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My Life
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" I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics. "
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" We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: 'Boy, you are skinny, aren't you?' I said: 'Honey, I'd like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.' "
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" 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. "
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Am
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" For victory in life, we've got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven. "
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Goal
Heaven
" If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today. "
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Yesterday
" All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them. "
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" 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. "
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" On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job. "
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" When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary. "
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