Lou Holtz Quotes (47 Quotes)

With his optimism and with the new enthusiasm that a new coach always brings, I think he can take it to the championship level, and I will be surprised if he doesn't win the championship. Not that it will be easy, but he's a very talented individual.

There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

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.

Don't tell your problems to people eighty percent don't care and the other twenty percent are glad you have them

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

Lou gives 1 reason for the Irish Football decline and the key to its recovery A supportive administration. Everything else flows from that.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

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

I haven't seen anything that would compare to the anxiety of the game. Look at this USC was No. 1 preseason, Texas was No. 2 and it never changed the entire year. Everyone said these would be the two best teams in the entire country and they were. How often does that happen.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

I am sorry that any rules were violated and I apologize for any embarrassment in my six years at USC, ... We tried to operate not only according to the letter of the law but the spirit of the law as well.

I said they were capable of it. I didn't say they were going to do it.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

This is the type of game you live for.

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

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

They've got it over the hump. They've got it established. As long as they've got great senior leadership, it will continue to happen.

I've said this all along, I don't know how good we can be because I haven't played anybody on our schedule. But at the same time, I look at it and say - 'We don't have anybody on our schedule that we've beaten that last three years,' ... So, I don't know how we compare to everybody, but I think with the way this team is working, they have chance, at least, to be competitive.

If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him.

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

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

We only had one more meal. I thought I was safe.

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

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

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.

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

Give credit to Wofford on that. We didn't run it until several years after (Wofford).

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

I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

A lot of people didn't even know we were being investigated. When the news broke last week, our freshmen were like, 'We were under investigation No one ever told us.' It's not like I bothered to tell them.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.

You get in that traditional punt formation and you spend hours trying to pick this up and that up. We didn't spend one-fifteenth that time in our spread-punt formation.

This Southern Cal team is capable of it, too, ... But I don't think they will. I just think Notre Dame really has a good shot at them.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them.

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

The ability of a defense to dominate and stop the run forces you into a one-dimensional game. You come out wanting to play ball control, field position, but by the second quarter, you're down by 17 and you're forced to throw.

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

Ask people over the last 20 years who has won the most Commander-in-Chief's Trophies. Tradition always is under construction. People don't look at what happened in the 1940s. They look at what's happening today.

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

Build your empire on the firm foundation of the fundamentals.