The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
LOU HOLTZTo win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.
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ESPN is a great organization to work for.
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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.
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I look like I have beriberi and scurvy.
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Everybody from the Big Ten is going to play the ACC. Everybody from the Big East is going to play the Pac-10.
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I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.
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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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I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
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Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win.
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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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My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.
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In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely.
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My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn’t much, so to get $300 more per year.
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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
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After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.
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In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges.
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I’m no genius.
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No one has ever drowned in sweat.
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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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If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.
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I don’t drink water, haven’t drank water in 40 years.
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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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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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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 have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.
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If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.
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