Lou Holtz Quotes

I don't exercise.

Remember this. Bear Bryant retired at age 69, and he died 28 days after he stopped coaching. If you don't have something, and a purpose in your life, you're gonna die.

Don't tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the ship in.

In this world you're either growing or you're dying so get in motion and grow.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It's the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

Attitude determines how well you do it.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

You will never be indecisive if you know your purpose.

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.

We aren't where we want to be; we aren't where we ought to be; but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be.

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

Actually, all I ever wanted to be was the best in my field.

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

I'm no genius.

Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

I give opinions, not advice.

If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.

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

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.

Do what's right! Do the best you can and treat others the way you want to be treated because they will ask three questions: (1) Can I trust you? (2) Are you committed? (3) Do you care about me as a person?

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

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.

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.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

It always amazes me that spectators want to coach, coaches want to officiate, and officials just want to watch the game

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

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

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

First we become the best, then we'll become first.

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.

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

I look like I have beriberi and scurvy.

You might not be able to outthink, outmarket or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.

The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite.

When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach. Why was something successful? What makes it work? I just try to use my expertise and whatever insight I have to the game.

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

It's the extra effort after you have done your best that creates victory.

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

Remember that adversity presents us with numerous possibilities for success, if we are just willing to see them.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

First and foremost I am a teacher, I care. Caring is helping the players to develop

In life, be a participant, not a spectator.

We are not going to win because you have a new head coach, any more than you are going to fix a flat tire by changing the driver. We will win the minute all of us get rid of excuses as to why we can't win and stop wallowing in self-pity.

Our cellar home had a kitchen and a combination bedroom and half bath, which meant we had a sink next to the bed. We had no refrigerator, no shower or tub, and no privacy. My parents shared the bedroom with my sister and me.

We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.

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.

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

The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

I think that we have opportunities all around us - sometimes we just don't recognize them.

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.

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

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.

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

Never settle for second when first is available

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