Lou Holtz Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Lou Holtz
The price of LEADERSHIP is RESPONSIBILITY ... and part of that responsibility is to STAY POSITIVE whether you feel like it or not. — Lou Holtz
The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood. — Lou Holtz
I'd say handling people is the most important thing you can do as a coach. I've found every time I've gotten into trouble with a player, it's because I wasn't talking to him enough. — Lou Holtz
I'm an old man, and all my life I've said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it's a national school. — Lou Holtz
Give your players something they can physically do - don't ask them to do something they can't do. — Lou Holtz
My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life. — Lou Holtz
Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference. — Lou Holtz
Nothing is as good as it seems, and nothing is as bad as it seems. Somewhere in between lies realty. — Lou Holtz
I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing ... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team! — Lou Holtz
Everybody needs four things in life: Something to do, someone to love, someone to believe in and something to hope for. — Lou Holtz
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
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
He called on me to save him as I had promised. And I did the same thing that you might have done if you were in my situation. I tried to pretend that I couldn't hear him calling to me. — Lou Holtz
There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it. — Lou Holtz
My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for. — Lou Holtz
You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose. — Lou Holtz
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. — Lou Holtz
If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide. — Lou Holtz
I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life. — Lou Holtz
When all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
[as quoted by Alfred E Neuman] — Lou Holtz
What you are capable of achieving is determined by your talent and ability. What you attempt to do is determined by your motivation. How well you do something is determined by your attitude. — Lou Holtz
If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him. — Lou Holtz
I don't play well enough to be allowed to throw my clubs. — Lou Holtz
So what if someone wrote your obituary ... that doesn't mean you are obligated to die. — Lou Holtz
We aren't where we want to be; we aren't where we ought to be; but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be. — Lou Holtz
You've got to have great athletes to win, I don't care who the coach is. You can't win without good athletes but you can lose with them. This is where coaching makes the difference. — Lou Holtz
Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think — Lou Holtz
I just have an enthusiasm for life. — Lou Holtz
The freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities. If you want to fail yourself - you can - but you cannot do your own thing if you have responsibilities to team members. — Lou Holtz
You live up - or down - to your expectations. — Lou Holtz
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
God looks after children, animals and idiots. — Lou Holtz
Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated. — Lou Holtz
I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary. — Lou Holtz
Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time. — Lou Holtz
Never tell your problems to anyone ... 20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them. — Lou Holtz
I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did. — Lou Holtz
You might not be able to outthink, outmarket or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them. — Lou Holtz
You always have to prepare for the obstacles that are going to come. Consequently, when they do come, it doesn't affect you mentally near as much as when you're unprepared for them. — Lou Holtz
No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and allows you to take pleasure in the blessings you have been given. — Lou Holtz
No one has ever drowned in sweat. — Lou Holtz
Build your empire on the firm foundation of the fundamentals. — Lou Holtz
The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite. — Lou Holtz
You can't motivate a group of people or a Team. You have to motivate people individually, and that motivation has to be in an environment in which that person has a goal - something they want to accomplish in their lives. — Lou Holtz
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
We are always faced with different challenges, and circumstances necessitate bringing out the greatness God puts in all of us. — Lou Holtz
Remember that adversity presents us with numerous possibilities for success, if we are just willing to see them. — Lou Holtz
Don't run if you can walk. Don't walk if you can stand. Don't stand if you can sit. Don't sit if you can lie down. — Lou Holtz
I believe your attitude is the most important choice you can make. — Lou Holtz
It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie. — Lou Holtz
ESPN is a great organization to work for. — Lou Holtz
My wife doesn't even want to spend 2 hours with me. — Lou Holtz
No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner. — Lou Holtz
Coaching is about helping young people have a chance
to succeed. There is no more awesome responsibility
than that. One of the greatest honors a person can have
is being called 'Coach.' — Lou Holtz
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.' — Lou Holtz
Teamwork is the foundation of success. The three universal questions that an individual asks of his coach, player, employee, employer are: Can I trust you? Are you committed to excellence? And, do you care about me? — Lou Holtz
In this world you're either growing or you're dying so get in motion and grow. — Lou Holtz
If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you are doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. — Lou Holtz
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. — Lou Holtz
We will use some kind of option and we will throw the football. I hope it will be at our people. — Lou Holtz
I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known. — Lou Holtz
Give me a blackboard. I can stop anything on a blackboard. — Lou Holtz
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. — Lou Holtz
I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in. — Lou Holtz
In life, be a participant, not a spectator. — Lou Holtz
It's good to be successful but it's great to be significant — Lou Holtz
Do what's right! Do the best you can and treat others the way you want to be treated because they will ask three questions: (1) Can I trust you? (2) Are you committed? (3) Do you care about me as a person? — Lou Holtz
We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera. — Lou Holtz
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. — Lou Holtz
Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something. — Lou Holtz
Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity. — Lou Holtz
I can't explain why a bride buys her wedding dress, whereas a groom rents his tux. — Lou Holtz
Everything ends badly, otherwise it would not end. — Lou Holtz
I look like I have beriberi and scurvy. — Lou Holtz
Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated. — Lou Holtz
So think before you complain, especially about things that require some sacrifice. Complaining is the sign of a loser. — Lou Holtz
Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it's your turn. — Lou Holtz
You don't go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody. — Lou Holtz
The key to winning is choosing to do God's will and loving others with all you've got. — Lou Holtz
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. — Lou Holtz
If you make a fist and hold it for two hours, you won't be able to pick up a glass because you'll be so weak. Let's stay loose. Let's have fun. — Lou Holtz
When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again. — Lou Holtz
If you don't demand that your people maintain. High performances to remain on your team, Why should they be proud of the association? — Lou Holtz
Momentum is whatever your attitude determines it to be. — Lou Holtz
The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones. — Lou Holtz
One thing about me is I try to be honest. — Lou Holtz
It always amazes me that spectators want to coach, coaches want to officiate, and officials just want to watch the game — Lou Holtz
Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it. — Lou Holtz
I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions. — Lou Holtz