Lou Holtz Quotes

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

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

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!

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.

It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.

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

Never settle for second when first is available

Football coaches don't have real problems.

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

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

The only people who aren't going to be criticized are those who do absolutely nothing

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

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.

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

Attitude determines how well you do it.

You build a successful life a day at a time.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

Everything ends badly, otherwise it would not end.

You live up - or down - to your expectations.

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

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

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

What you are capable of achieving is determined by your talent and ability. What you attempt to do is determined by your motivation. How well you do something is determined by your attitude.

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

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.

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

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.

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

I can't explain why a bride buys her wedding dress, whereas a groom rents his tux.

If you want to get a deal, negotiate with the teams yourself. Say, "I want this much, and no less, but I'll show up to camp on time." It doesn't seem that hard to me.

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.

All my life, I've been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I've come is a bogey.

You must have dreams and goals if you are ever going to achieve anything in this world.

I asked you to pack your headgear and shoulder pads, but more importantly your defense and your kicking game, because that's what wins game like this.

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

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

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

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

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

God looks after children, animals and idiots.

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

I bet you went on one date and wanted to get married.