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 HOLTZAn agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.
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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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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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I just have an enthusiasm for life.
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I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.
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Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
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I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn’t even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.
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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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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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For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.
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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 may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.
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Our cellar home had a kitchen and a combination bedroom and half bath, which meant we had a sink next to the bed.
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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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I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.
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