Lou Holtz Quotes

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

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

A player has no use for an agent. None.

Those who know Notre Dame, no explanation’s necessary. Those who don’t, no explanation will suffice.

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.

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

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

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.

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

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

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.

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.

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.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.

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

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

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

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

The price of LEADERSHIP is RESPONSIBILITY....and part of that responsibility is to STAY POSITIVE whether you feel like it or not.

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

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

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

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

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

In adversity, there is opportunity. Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity. I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity. Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

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

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.

If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him.

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

After landing his invasion forces on the shores of some country, the sixteenth-century Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes would immediately burn his own boats. He was sending his army a message: "We can't turn back. Either we succeed here or we die here." Excuses were not an option.

Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

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

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

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.

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

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

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.

I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

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