Quotes By Lou Holtz

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

I don't drink water, haven't drank water in 40 years.

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

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.

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

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

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

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.

If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him.

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

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.

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

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

I don't exercise.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

I give opinions, not advice.

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

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.