Lou Holtz Quotes
"No one has ever drowned in sweat."
- Lou Holtz
"The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood."
- Lou Holtz
(Related: Humor, People, Sense)
"When all is said and done, more is said than done."
- Lou Holtz
"You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him."
- Lou Holtz
"You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose."
- Lou Holtz
"On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job."
- Lou Holtz
(Related: Job, United)
"Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity."
- Lou Holtz
(Related: Adversity)
"Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated."
- Lou Holtz
(Related: Right, Want)
"If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him."
- Lou Holtz
(Related: Golf)
"In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention."
- Lou Holtz
(Related: Successful, Attention, Detail)
"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."
- Lou Holtz
(Related: Life, Goals, Desire)
"If you try to fight the course, it will beat you."
- Lou Holtz
(Related: Fight, Will)
"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it."
- Lou Holtz
"If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better."
- Lou Holtz
(Related: Neighbors)
"If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today."
- Lou Holtz
(Related: Today, Yesterday)
"I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it."
- Lou Holtz
(Related: Experience, Career, Defeat)
"I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions."
- Lou Holtz
(Related: Questions, Talking)
"I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary."
- Lou Holtz
(Related: God, Earth)
"Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by."
- Lou Holtz
(Related: Life)
"Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired."
- Lou Holtz
(Related: Coaching, Mistakes, Nothing)
"A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you."
- Lou Holtz
(Related: Coach, Fire)
"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."
- Lou Holtz
(Related: Song)
"Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated."
- Lou Holtz
(Related: Motivation)
"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it."
- Lou Holtz
(Related: Life)
"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."
- Lou Holtz
(Related: Challenge, Will)
"It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test."
- Lou Holtz
(Related: Ability)