Quotes By Lou Holtz

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

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

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

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

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

I don't exercise.

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.

I give opinions, not advice.

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.

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

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.

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

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

See, winners embrace hard work.

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

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

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

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

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