Lou Holtz Quotes

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!

Lou Holtz

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• A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Life
  • Long
  • Space

• In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • Kind
  • Like
  • Chocolate

• There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • World
  • Impossible
  • Lovely

• I'm always very happy to talk to people. I relate to people, and the guy on stage is very much the guy that's off stage. People know when it's fake.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Happy
  • Guy

• I think to be 'tough' means you look relaxed. So you have to be tough to win tournaments. But you don't want to be so tough on yourself.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Yourself
  • Win
  • Tough

• When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Know
  • Acting
  • Kid

• I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Career
  • Lucky
  • Critics

• I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.

  

  Gary Carr
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Football
  • Golf
  • Yes

• These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Shadow
  • Over
  • Fast

• If you don't understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance. The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Man
  • Better
  • Problems

• I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Perfect
  • Accept
  • Strangers

• In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.

  

  Flume
  • Different
  • Home
  • Feel

• Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Up
  • Music
  • Kids

• I will take the subway and look at certain women and think 'God, that woman's story will never be told. How come that lady doesn't get a movie about her?'

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • God
  • Women
  • Movie

• Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • World
  • Live
  • Children

• My passion is to create a better society for our future citizens.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Future
  • Society
  • Passion

• Couples don't fall out of love so much as they fall out of repentance.

  

  Gary L. Thomas
  • Much
  • Repentance
  • Couples

• The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.

  

  Ezra Klein
  • Remember
  • Young
  • Old

• The thing about startups is you can make it, and if it's wrong you can remake it, and you can build a team that you want to have, a product that you want to have. You're utterly focused on your users or your customers and their needs, and trying to figure out how to meet those needs.

  

  John Katzman
  • Trying
  • Team

• At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren't where you want to be, you will always be a failure.

  

  Erin Cummings
  • Reason
  • Realizing
  • Accepting

• I'm playing this game because I'm blessed and want to help this team win the Super Bowl, ... At the same time, I want to be considered the best safety that has ever played the game.

  

  Brian Dawkins
  • Game
  • Team
  • Win

• 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!

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Team
  • Player
  • Motivational