Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.
LOU HOLTZDon’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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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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You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
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If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.
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When I didn’t collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.
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I just have an enthusiasm for life.
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I look like I have beriberi and scurvy.
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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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I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it’s not always in the way you expect.
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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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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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When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.
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In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges.
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I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.
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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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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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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.
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God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.
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I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.
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We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends.
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I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
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Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.
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When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.
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See, winners embrace hard work.
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It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.
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An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.
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No one has ever drowned in sweat.
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