I 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.
LOU HOLTZHow 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.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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I’ve followed Notre Dame football since 1946, when I listened on the radio and Johnny Lujack tackled Doc Blanchard in the open field to preserve a 0-0 tie.
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Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word.
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Notre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California.
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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’m no genius.
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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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To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.
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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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The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.
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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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Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
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I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.
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For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.
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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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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
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