Lou Holtz Quotes
-
You must have dreams and goals if you are ever going to achieve anything in this world.
-
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.
-
In life, be a participant, not a spectator.
-
All I've seen agents do is talk players into having bad senior seasons because they're trying to keep themselves from getting injured.
-
You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
-
We will use some kind of option and we will throw the football. I hope it will be at our people.
-
I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life.
-
I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
-
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.
-
Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
-
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.
-
It's a better view if you're standing up than if you're laying down.
-
No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and allows you to take pleasure in the blessings you have been given.
-
All my life, I've been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I've come is a bogey.
-
The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.
-
For victory in life, we've got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.
-
Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.
-
They say a tie is like kissing your sister. I guess that is better than kissing your brother.
-
As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that's all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.
-
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.
-
Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.
-
Don't tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the ship in.
-
So what if someone wrote your obituary... that doesn't mean you are obligated to die.
-
Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time.