I give opinions, not advice.
LOU HOLTZIn golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.
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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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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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This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.
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Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.
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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 used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
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I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.
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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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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
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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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I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
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You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
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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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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
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If you made me the national commissioner of football, I’d tell you one thing that I would mandate.
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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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If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.
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I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.
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I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course.
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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 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.
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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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Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
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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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No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.
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