Lou Holtz Quotes And Sayings

I Was Raised In A Religious Environment, And My Wife Is One Of The More Religious People That I Have Ever Known.

If Tiger Woods Had Played Football, He Would Have Been A Quarterback.

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.

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.

My First Assistant-coaching Job In Football Was At William &Amp; Mary In 1961. The Pay Wasn't Much, So To Get $300 More Per Year, I Agreed To Coach The Golf Team. I Didn't Even Know How To Keep Score, And Really, My Main Job Was Not To Wreck The Van On The Way To Tournaments.

My Philosophy In Life Is, Decide What You Want To Do. You Have To Have Something To Hope For.

Virtually Nothing Is Impossible In This World If You Just Put Your Mind To It And Maintain A Positive Attitude.

On This Team, We're All United In A Common Goal: To Keep My Job.

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.

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!

Coaching Is Nothing More Than Eliminating Mistakes Before You Get Fired.

I Give Opinions, Not Advice.

When I Left The University Of Notre Dame, I Honestly Felt I Would Never Coach Again.

If He's Got Golf Clubs In His Truck Or A Camper In His Driveway, I Don't Hire Him.

You'll Never Get Ahead Of Anyone As Long As You Try To Get Even With Him.

It Is A Fine Thing To Have Ability, But The Ability To Discover Ability In Others Is The True Test.

No One Has Ever Drowned In Sweat.

Everyone Goes Through Adversity In Life, But What Matters Is How You Learn From It.

In The Successful Organization, No Detail Is Too Small To Escape Close Attention.

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.

I Do Think Coaches Need To Get Away From The Game More, Though. It's Good For Them.

You Don't Go To Notre Dame To Learn Something; You Go To Notre Dame To Be Somebody.

No Matter What Happens On The Field, Getting An Education Makes You A Winner.

God Looks After Children, Animals And Idiots.

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.

I Look Like I Have Beriberi And Scurvy.

Nothing On This Earth Is Standing Still. It's Either Growing Or It's Dying. No Matter If It's A Tree Or A Human Being.

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.

I'm So Old, I Don't Buy Green Bananas Any More.

Life Is Ten Percent What Happens To You And Ninety Percent How You Respond To It.

I Just Have An Enthusiasm For Life.

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.

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.

When People Need Love And Understanding And Support The Most Is When They Deserve It The Least.

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.'

When The Bank Asks Me About My Assets, I Include My Friendship With Regis Philbin.

I Believe That Having A Spiritual Life Is So Important In Everybody's Life.

When All Is Said And Done, More Is Said Than Done.

All An Agent Is Going To Do Is Buy Things For A Player, Damage His Eligibility, And Make The Player Dependent On Them.

Ability Is What You're Capable Of Doing. Motivation Determines What You Do. Attitude Determines How Well You Do It.

How Do You Know What It's Like To Be Stupid If You've Never Been Smart?

I Truly Believe The Things Notre Dame Stands For.

To Win A National Championship, You've Got To Be A Little Lucky.

Whenever You Give Up Something, You Must Replace It With Something.

I Don't Think There's Been Anything In The Game Of Football In My Lifetime That Has Changed College Football More Than Redshirting.

One Thing About Me Is I Try To Be Honest.

I Used To Pray That God Would Make Me A Great Athlete, And He Never Did.

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.

An Agent Won't Help You Get Drafted Higher, Won't Make You Win More Games, And Won't Make You Faster Or Stronger.

I Think Life Is A Matter Of Choices And That Wherever We Are, Good Or Bad, Is Because Of Choices We Make.