Lou Holtz Quotes

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

In this world you're either growing or you're dying so get in motion and grow.

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

In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.

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

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

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

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

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

Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

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.

You don't go to Notre Dame to learn something, you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

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

So many times people are afraid of competition, when it should bring out the best in us. We all have talents and abilities, so why be intimidated by other people's skills?

I believe your attitude is the most important choice you can make.

So what if someone wrote your obituary... that doesn't mean you are obligated to die.

If you don't demand that your people maintain. High performances to remain on your team, Why should they be proud of the association?

I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

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.

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

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

Remember this. Bear Bryant retired at age 69, and he died 28 days after he stopped coaching. If you don't have something, and a purpose in your life, you're gonna die.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by

For victory in life, we've got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

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

When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach. Why was something successful? What makes it work? I just try to use my expertise and whatever insight I have to the game.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

Remember that adversity presents us with numerous possibilities for success, if we are just willing to see them.

What's important now? - To evaluate the past, focus on the future, and tell you what you have to do in the present

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

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.

We are always faced with different challenges, and circumstances necessitate bringing out the greatness God puts in all of us.

Don't tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the ship in.

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.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

It's a better view if you're standing up than if you're laying down.

You live up - or down - to your expectations.

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

Only the unprepared are overcome by pressure

Underconfidence breeds underachievement.

One day you are drinking the wine, and they next day you are picking the grapes.

A team wins with the elimination of mistakes and with people who want to win and can't stand losing.

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

Everything ends badly, otherwise it would not end.

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

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.

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!