I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.
LOU HOLTZI feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.
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On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
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I look like I have beriberi and scurvy.
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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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We had no refrigerator, no shower or tub, and no privacy. My parents shared the bedroom with my sister and me.
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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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It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.
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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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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.
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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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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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Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.
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Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
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I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!
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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’m so old, I don’t buy green bananas any more.
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Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.
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I don’t think there’s been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.
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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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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
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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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I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
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We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on.
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Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.
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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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