Lou Holtz Quotes

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.

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.

Build your empire on the firm foundation of the fundamentals.

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.

See, winners embrace hard work.

You build a successful life a day at a time.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

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

Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.

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.

The best way to save face is not to use the lower half.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

The answer is surprisingly simple. Just do right. Live an honorable life.

I don't play well enough to be allowed to throw my clubs.

When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.

No, but you can see it from here.

They say a tie is like kissing your sister. I guess that is better than kissing your brother.

You can pay people to perform, but you can't pay people to excel.

To my wife 'I told you I was sick'.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.

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.'

Ya know, Hitler was a great leader, too.

If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide.

After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.

Actually, all I ever wanted to be was the best in my field.

I give opinions, not advice.

I don't think we can win every game. Just the next one.

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.

It's good to be successful but it's great to be significant

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.

The freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities.

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

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

How do you know what it's like to be stupid if you've never been smart?

It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them.

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

First we become the best, then we'll become first.

Football coaches don't have real problems.

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

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

First and foremost I am a teacher, I care. Caring is helping the players to develop

My wife doesn't even want to spend 2 hours with me.

Momentum is whatever your attitude determines it to be.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

I don't drink water, haven't drank water in 40 years.

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.

Give your players something they can physically do - don't ask them to do something they can't do.

We will use some kind of option and we will throw the football. I hope it will be at our people.

God looks after children, animals and idiots.