When I didn’t collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.
LOU HOLTZI was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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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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See, winners embrace hard work.
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I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.
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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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I don’t drink water, haven’t drank water in 40 years.
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You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.
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If you made me the national commissioner of football, I’d tell you one thing that I would mandate.
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Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
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My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.
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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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No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.
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I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
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Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word.
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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
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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 all is said and done, more is said than done.
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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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You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.
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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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My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.
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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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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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The University of Notre Dame does not redshirt, and I endorse that policy completely.
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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 do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it’s not always in the way you expect.
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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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