Quotes By Lou Holtz

If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

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

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

I give opinions, not advice.

When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

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

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

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life.

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

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

See, winners embrace hard work.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

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

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

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

I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It's good for them.

How do you know what it's like to be stupid if you've never been smart?

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