Holtz Quotes & Sayings

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them. — 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

Everyone wants to win on Saturday afternoon when the game is played. It's what you do the other six days that decides the outcome — Lou Holtz

Absolutely. There are a 1000 better coaches in the cities, but I'm the best in the country. — Lou Holtz

It was a great game if you don't care who won. I cared. — Lou Holtz

I've never seen the yellow light, umm the yellow line be wrong. — 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

Football coaches don't have real problems. — Lou Holtz

Do what's right. Be on time, be polite, and be honest; remain free from drugs; and if you have any questions, get out your Bible. 2. Do your best. Mediocrity is unacceptable when you are capable of doing better. 3. Treat others as you want to be treated. Practice love and understanding. — Lou Holtz

First we become the best, then we'll become first. — Lou Holtz

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. — Lou Holtz

Like all the Van Holtz males, Ric was tall, well-built with a slightly overdeveloped diver's body, and handsome. Yet handsome was only the first stop on the beauty train for Ric, who managed to head all the way into the station for The Land of Gorgeous. — Shelly Laurenston

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

Don't ever ask a player to do something he doesn't have the ability to do. He'll just question your ability as a coach, not his as an athlete. — Lou Holtz

The team that's on defense first (in overtime) has the advantage because they know whether they need a touchdown a field goal or just a score. — Lou Holtz

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention. — 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

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. — 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

One reason I won't compromise is because I believe honesty helps you win over the long haul. You can win a game tomorrow and lose a team. You can lose a game tomorrow and win a football team. — 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

What's Important Now (?) — Lou Holtz

The elevator doors opened on the first floor and Van Holtz was waiting there with several bags of groceries in his hands.
"Oh. You," he said. He started to walk in and, without thinking, simply reacting, Bo shoved him back out of the elevator by his head and hit the elevator button again.
"You asshole!" Bo heard as the door closed. — Shelly Laurenston

Only the unprepared are overcome by pressure — Lou Holtz

If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals. — Lou Holtz

Tom Osborne, Lou Holtz, Bobby Bowden were in our living room. My mom didn't know who they were! — Hines Ward

Broadcasting is easy; you just talk until you think of something to say. — Lou Holtz

The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones. — Lou Holtz

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

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on. — Lou Holtz

No, but you can see it from here. — 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

It's good to be successful but it's great to be significant — Lou Holtz

One thing about me is I try to be honest. — Lou Holtz

Somewhere today in time, I died. Conscious of a love cruelly wronged, almost hearing the silent calls beaming from eternity, hearing the sounds of the sea waves breaking at my feet - beckoning me, and it is in those cries, deep inside my fated soul, deep in another life which brings me the allure of: destiny. — J.L. Holtz

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me. — Lou Holtz

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. — Lou Holtz

Do right. Do your best. — Lou Holtz

Europeans call it socialism, Americans call it welfare, and Barack Obama calls it change. — Douglas Holtz-Eakin

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

Luke-freakin'-Holtz. Damn. To bad I didn't meet him two months ago. Right now, I can't imagine dating anyone ever again. I'm going to become a nun. — Veronica Blade

The key to winning is choosing to do God's will and loving others with all you've got. — 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

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. — 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

People eyeing you as a potential leader tend to ask three questions: Are you committed? Do you care about me? Can I trust you? — Lou Holtz

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again. — Lou Holtz

My athletes always follow my advice ... unless it conflicts with what that they want to do. — Lou Holtz

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It's good for them. — Lou Holtz

I'm not a disciplinarian. I simply enforce other people's decisions. — 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

After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent. — Lou Holtz

Presidents have to be very organized to govern successfully, and solo artists rarely succeed. — Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Momentum is whatever your attitude determines it to be. — Lou Holtz

God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way. — Lou Holtz

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

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them. — Lou Holtz

Ulrich Van Holtz continued to read the latest tome on world economics, pretending to be bored, but in truth absolutely fascinated! — Shelly Laurenston

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

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It's the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things. — Lou Holtz

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. — Lou Holtz

All you need is something to say, and a burning desire to say it ... it doesn't matter where your hands are. — Lou Holtz

I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity. — 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

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him. — Lou Holtz

Don't let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out over 1,300 times. — Lou Holtz

I'm so old, I don't buy green bananas any more. — 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

Notre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California. — 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

Give me a blackboard. I can stop anything on a blackboard. — 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

All winning teams are goal-oriented. Teams like these win consistently because everyone connected with them concentrates on specific objectives. They go about their business with blinders on; nothing will distract them from achieving their aims. — Lou Holtz

Lou Holtz is a brilliant strategist, a first-class motivator, and an inspiring role model. Winning Every Day coaches you through the hard-won lessons of life that Coach Holtz has gleaned from a lifetime of learning. Using personal behind-the-scenes experiences he shows you how to break through obstacles, capitalize on fleeting opportunities, and achieve success. There is no better mentor than Lou Holtz. — Peter Lowe

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period. — Lou Holtz

To my wife 'I told you I was sick'. — Lou Holtz

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions. — 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

In life, be a participant, not a spectator. — Lou Holtz

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today. — 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

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

ESPN is a great organization to work for. — Lou Holtz

I look like I have beriberi and scurvy. — Lou Holtz

You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance. — Lou Holtz

If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial. — 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

You build a successful life a day at a time. — 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

An agent won't help you get drafted higher, won't make you win more games, and won't make you faster or stronger. — Lou Holtz

If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback. — Lou Holtz

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. — 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