I’m an old man, and all my life I’ve said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it’s a national school.
LOU HOLTZI’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.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
-
-
I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
LOU HOLTZ -
If you made me the national commissioner of football, I’d tell you one thing that I would mandate.
LOU HOLTZ -
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
LOU HOLTZ -
My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.
LOU HOLTZ -
I look like I have beriberi and scurvy.
LOU HOLTZ -
Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
LOU HOLTZ -
I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.
LOU HOLTZ -
At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day.
LOU HOLTZ -
I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.
LOU HOLTZ -
I am very much in favor of redshirting, but not at Notre Dame. But there’s no doubt about it. It puts us at a huge disadvantage.
LOU HOLTZ -
I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.
LOU HOLTZ -
If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.
LOU HOLTZ -
You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.
LOU HOLTZ -
God knows what’s best for us, though, so there’s no need to worry when things don’t go how we originally wanted them to go.
LOU HOLTZ -
When I didn’t collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.
LOU HOLTZ -
Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.
LOU HOLTZ -
If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.
LOU HOLTZ -
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
LOU HOLTZ -
You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.
LOU HOLTZ -
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
LOU HOLTZ -
Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.
LOU HOLTZ -
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.
LOU HOLTZ -
After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.
LOU HOLTZ -
Everybody from the Big Ten is going to play the ACC. Everybody from the Big East is going to play the Pac-10.
LOU HOLTZ -
I’m so old, I don’t buy green bananas any more.
LOU HOLTZ -
The University of Notre Dame does not redshirt, and I endorse that policy completely.
LOU HOLTZ