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" You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him. "
Lou Holtz
Never
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" To win a national championship, you've got to be a little lucky. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities. "
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" If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who's been successful at another college program, they're going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there. "
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" I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics. "
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Assure
Nothing
" I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me. "
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" I think that we have opportunities all around us - sometimes we just don't recognize them. "
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" If you try to fight the course, it will beat you. "
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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. "
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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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Born
" When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least. "
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" How do you know what it's like to be stupid if you've never been smart? "
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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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" I give opinions, not advice. "
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" I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it. "
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Career
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" 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. "
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Forget
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" The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. "
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About
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" 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. "
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You
" When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin. "
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" I'm so old, I don't buy green bananas any more. "
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" I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for. "
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" I don't think there's been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting. "
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" Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them. "
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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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" 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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