Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
LOU HOLTZWhen people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
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God knows what’s best for us, though, so there’s no need to worry when things don’t go how we originally wanted them to go.
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I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age.
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Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.
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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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You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.
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I’m no genius.
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Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching.
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The second Saturday in September, we’re going to have conference day. Everybody from the SEC plays a Big 12 team.
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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.’
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But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.
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We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.
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Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word.
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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
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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.
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When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.
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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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After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.
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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.
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The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.
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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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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
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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 can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
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It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.
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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
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