If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.
LOU HOLTZI’m no genius.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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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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I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
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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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I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.
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I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.
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Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.
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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
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In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate.
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I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.
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God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.
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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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The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
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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.
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We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.
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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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Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.
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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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See, winners embrace hard work.
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My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.
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At home I have a copy of the April 21, 1986, issue of ‘Sports Illustrated.’ I’m on the cover with the blurb, ‘Can Lou Do It?’ I’d just arrived at Notre Dame, and with spring football underway, I was the focal point of that week’s coverage.
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Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.
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Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.
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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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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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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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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.
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