My wife looked at me and said: ‘Boy, you are skinny, aren’t you?’ I said: ‘Honey, I’d like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.’
LOU HOLTZGod answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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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 do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.
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You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
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It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.
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I’m no genius.
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Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.
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I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.
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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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I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn’t even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.
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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 believe – we all pay taxes. I’m happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That’s going to bother you.
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If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.
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It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
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We had no refrigerator, no shower or tub, and no privacy. My parents shared the bedroom with my sister and me.
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Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
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