Lou Holtz Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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?”

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

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

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

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

“I give opinions, not advice.”

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

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

“I'm no genius.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”