66 Lou Holtz Quotes for You to Enjoy

Lou Holtz

American Coach

Born: Jan 6, 1937

Coach God Life Me People You

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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. Lou Holtz

Day Balance Age Every Day Rest Profit Every Thirty Nine Paper Papers Out Collect Per Week Delivered Had Also Got Came Dollars Families Owed Six Customer Cents Average Each Twenty Keep Income Route

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something. Lou Holtz

You Must Give Something Up Replace Whenever

If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him. Lou Holtz

Driveway He Truck Him Got Hire His Camper Golf Clubs

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life. Lou Holtz

Life Politics Me Better Wife Rumors About Any Social Social Life

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life. Lou Holtz

Life Spiritual Important Believe Everybody Spiritual Life Having

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn't much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn't even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments. Lou Holtz

Job First Year Pay Way William Van Wreck Per More Mary Main Football Tournaments Know How Score Get Golf Much Really Coach Team Agreed Even Keep

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

People Obligation Physically Mentally Retarded Cannot Themselves Help Help People

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

I think that we have opportunities all around us - sometimes we just don't recognize them. Lou Holtz

Sometimes Opportunities Think Recognize All-Around Around Just Them Us

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

You Somebody Something Learn Go Notre Dame Dame

Had I been a great athlete, I'm not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes. Lou Holtz

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

You Fire Lifetime Ball Quarter Contract Moving Coach Means Third

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test. Lou Holtz

Others Fine Ability True Test True Test Discover Thing

All my life, I've been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I've come is a bogey. Lou Holtz

Life My Life All My Life Come Make Been Trying Closest

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. Lou Holtz

Depression Great Family Before Great Depression Plight John Wrath Born About His Years Wall Wall Street Eight After Crashed January Grapes Novel Published Street Two Pulitzer