Lou Holtz Quotes

“I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that's for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn't play golf.”

“If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.”

“When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.”

“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”

“Build your empire on the firm foundation of the fundamentals.”

“How do you know what it's like to be stupid if you've never been smart?”

“They say a tie is like kissing your sister. I guess that is better than kissing your brother.”

“No one has ever drowned in sweat.”

“I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.”

“Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference.”

“When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.”

“You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.”

“So many times people are afraid of competition, when it should bring out the best in us. We all have talents and abilities, so why be intimidated by other people's skills?”

“If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.”

“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.”

“Momentum is whatever your attitude determines it to be.”

“We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.”

“If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial.”

“Only the unprepared are overcome by pressure”

“On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.”

“Football coaches don't have real problems.”

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

“Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.”

“The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.”

“Coaching is about helping young people have a chanceto succeed. There is no more awesome responsibilitythan that. One of the greatest honors a person can haveis being called 'Coach.'”