Quotes By Lou Holtz

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

I don't exercise.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I give opinions, not advice.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

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

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

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.

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