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Holtz refuses to hang his head after fire
A loss is a loss, and former Notre Dame head coach Lou Holtz is handling the loss of his $1.6 million home in Orlando the same way he handled defeats on the gridiron at South Bend.
“In athletics you are going to have ups and downs. Whenever we had a down, we did two things,” Holtz told the Orlando Sentinel. “We gave ourselves ‘X’ amount of time to feel bad for ourselves, and then we moved forward. With the fire, by Monday morning it was no more feeling bad for ourselves. We were looking forward.”
The blaze began late Saturday night when lightning struck the roof of Holtz’s 11,000-square-foot home and slowly sparked a fire which caused the smoke alarms to go off by 2:30 a.m.
The blaze caused the second floor of the home to collapse, resulting in the house being deemed a “total loss.”
You can’t blame Holtz if he wanted to hang his head for a while, especially after finding out that precious sports memorabilia like photos with U.S. presidents and two popes were destroyed in the fire. However, Holtz refused to throw himself a pity party.
“Someone told me a long time ago that if what you lost can be replaced, then it’s not really a loss,” Holtz told the Orlando Sentinel. “You can’t replace a parent, a spouse, a child.
“…We think of the people who have catastrophes that happen in their lives and how difficult it is for them to recover if they don’t have the resources we are fortunate enough to have.”
With an attitude like that, it’s easy to see why Holtz has always been a winner.
(h/t Orlando Sentinel)
