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.
LOU HOLTZYou aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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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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I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
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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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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
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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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How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?
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I’m so old, I don’t buy green bananas any more.
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I’m no genius.
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I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.
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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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Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
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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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It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.
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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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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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