Lou holtz quotes

The price of LEADERSHIP is RESPONSIBILITY....and part of that responsibility is to STAY POSITIVE whether you feel like it or not.

You will never be indecisive if you know your purpose.

After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.

Everybody needs four things in life: Something to do, someone to love, someone to believe in and something to hope for.

You don't go to Notre Dame to learn something, you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

Do what's right! Do the best you can and treat others the way you want to be treated because they will ask three questions: (1) Can I trust you? (2) Are you committed? (3) Do you care about me as a person?

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

In this world you're either growing or you're dying so get in motion and grow.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

I believe your attitude is the most important choice you can make.

Everything ends badly, otherwise it would not end.

We are not going to win because you have a new head coach, any more than you are going to fix a flat tire by changing the driver. We will win the minute all of us get rid of excuses as to why we can't win and stop wallowing in self-pity.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time.

You can't motivate a group of people or a Team. You have to motivate people individually, and that motivation has to be in an environment in which that person has a goal - something they want to accomplish in their lives.

I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

I think that we have opportunities all around us - sometimes we just don't recognize them.

The best way to save face is not to use the lower half.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.

You might not be able to outthink, outmarket or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.

You must have dreams and goals if you are ever going to achieve anything in this world.

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial.

Give me a blackboard. I can stop anything on a blackboard.

Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Teamwork is the foundation of success. The three universal questions that an individual asks of his coach, player, employee, employer are: Can I trust you? Are you committed to excellence? And, do you care about me?

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

If you don't demand that your people maintain. High performances to remain on your team, Why should they be proud of the association?

We are always faced with different challenges, and circumstances necessitate bringing out the greatness God puts in all of us.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care. You’ve got to make a sincere attempt to have the right goals to begin with, then go after them with appropriate effort, and remember that you can’t really achieve anything great without the help of others.

Only the unprepared are overcome by pressure

Don't let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out over 1,300 times.

It's the extra effort after you have done your best that creates victory.

You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.

We will use some kind of option and we will throw the football. I hope it will be at our people.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

For victory in life, we've got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

My wife doesn't even want to spend 2 hours with me.

A team wins with the elimination of mistakes and with people who want to win and can't stand losing.

Attitude determines how well you do it.

Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference.

You've got to have great athletes to win, I don't care who the coach is. You can't win without good athletes but you can lose with them. This is where coaching makes the difference.

What you are capable of achieving is determined by your talent and ability. What you attempt to do is determined by your motivation. How well you do something is determined by your attitude.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

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.

The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite.

I don't think we can win every game. Just the next one.

At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. 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. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.

If you make a fist and hold it for two hours, you won't be able to pick up a glass because you'll be so weak. Let's stay loose. Let's have fun.

Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me.

You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Your neighbors will make judgments about you based on how your lawn and house look, and people who see you passing will judge you based on how clean you keep your car. It's not always fair, but it has always been true. Appearances matter, so make yours a good one.

I give opinions, not advice.

In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.

Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it's your turn.

It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

Broadcasting is easy; you just talk until you think of something to say.

Everyone wants to win on Saturday afternoon when the game is played. It’s what you do the other six days that decides the outcome

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.

So what if someone wrote your obituary... that doesn't mean you are obligated to die.

The only people who aren't going to be criticized are those who do absolutely nothing

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. 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.

In life, be a participant, not a spectator.

Do what's right. Be on time, be polite, and be honest; remain free from drugs; and if you have any questions, get out your Bible. 2. Do your best. Mediocrity is unacceptable when you are capable of doing better. 3. Treat others as you want to be treated. Practice love and understanding.

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by

Had I been a great athlete, I'm not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that's all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

People eyeing you as a potential leader tend to ask three questions: Are you committed? Do you care about me? Can I trust you?

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Remember this. Bear Bryant retired at age 69, and he died 28 days after he stopped coaching. If you don't have something, and a purpose in your life, you're gonna die.

We aren't where we want to be; we aren't where we ought to be; but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be.

Don't tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the ship in.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you are doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking.

Underconfidence breeds underachievement.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way.

All my life, I've been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I've come is a bogey.

Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God's word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin - and it's gonna happen - confession puts us back on the field.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

You build a successful life a day at a time.

The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail.

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, 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.

The greatest power God gave us is the power to choose. We have the opportunity to choose whether we're going to act or procrastinate, believe or doubt, pray or curse, help or heal. We also choose whether we're going to be happy or whether we're going to be sad.

Remember that adversity presents us with numerous possibilities for success, if we are just willing to see them.

Never settle for second when first is available

Those who know Notre Dame, no explanation’s necessary. Those who don’t, no explanation will suffice.

It always amazes me that spectators want to coach, coaches want to officiate, and officials just want to watch the game

I can't explain why a bride buys her wedding dress, whereas a groom rents his tux.

I asked you to pack your headgear and shoulder pads, but more importantly your defense and your kicking game, because that's what wins game like this.

Don'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.

So many times people are afraid of competition, when it should bring out the best in us. We all have talents and abilities, so why be intimidated by other people's skills?

I'd say handling people is the most important thing you can do as a coach. I've found every time I've gotten into trouble with a player, it's because I wasn't talking to him enough.

The freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities. If you want to fail yourself - you can - but you cannot do your own thing if you have responsibilities to team members.

Ya know, Hitler was a great leader, too.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate.

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

All winning teams are goal-oriented. Teams like these win consistently because everyone connected with them concentrates on specific objectives. They go about their business with blinders on; nothing will distract them from achieving their aims.

There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

In adversity, there is opportunity. Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity. I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity. Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and allows you to take pleasure in the blessings you have been given.

The key to winning is choosing to do God's will and loving others with all you've got.

One day you are drinking the wine, and they next day you are picking the grapes.

Coaching is about helping young people have a chance to succeed. There is no more awesome responsibility than that. One of the greatest honors a person can have is being called 'Coach.'

What's important now? - To evaluate the past, focus on the future, and tell you what you have to do in the present