If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.
LOU HOLTZYou’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.
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I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.
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God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.
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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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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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Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.
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When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.
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When I didn’t collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.
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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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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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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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I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
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The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously.
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I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it’s not always in the way you expect.
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I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.
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Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.
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Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.
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I don’t drink water, haven’t drank water in 40 years.
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Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
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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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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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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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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 man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
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Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.
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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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