You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.
LOU HOLTZWe can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.
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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.
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In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate.
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I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that’s all I ever was associated with.
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When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.
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This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.
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I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.
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If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.
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Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word.
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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.
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I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.
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When all is said and done, more is said than done.
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All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.
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I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!
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We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.
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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.
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Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.
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At home I have a copy of the April 21, 1986, issue of ‘Sports Illustrated.’ I’m on the cover with the blurb, ‘Can Lou Do It?’ I’d just arrived at Notre Dame, and with spring football underway, I was the focal point of that week’s coverage.
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I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.
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I’m proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It’s a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.
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I just have an enthusiasm for life.
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I don’t think there’s been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.
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Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely.
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Notre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California.
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Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
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A lifetime contract for a coach means if you’re ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can’t fire you.
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