Best 161 quotes of Lou Holtz on MyQuotes

Absolutely. There are a 1000 better coaches in the cities, but I'm the best in the country.

Actually, all I ever wanted to be was the best in my field.

Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

After landing his invasion forces on the shores of some country, the sixteenth-century Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes would immediately burn his own boats. He was sending his army a message: "We can't turn back. Either we succeed here or we die here." Excuses were not an option.

After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.

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

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

All I've seen agents do is talk players into having bad senior seasons because they're trying to keep themselves from getting injured.

All my life, I've been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I've come is a bogey.

All winning teams are goal-oriented. Teams like these win consistently because everyone connected with them concentrates on specific objectives. They go about their business with blinders on; nothing will distract them from achieving their aims.

All you need is something to say, and a burning desire to say it... it doesn't matter where your hands are.

An agent won't help you get drafted higher, won't make you win more games, and won't make you faster or stronger.

An agent won't help you get drafted higher, won't make you win more games, and won't make you faster or stronger. They all say they can, but the people who do the drafting don't talk to agents. They talk to coaches, they watch film, they talk to the people who've worked with players. They don't talk to agents.

As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that's all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.

At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.

A team wins with the elimination of mistakes and with people who want to win and can't stand losing.

Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.

Broadcasting is easy; you just talk until you think of something to say.

Build your empire on the firm foundation of the fundamentals.

Coaching is about helping young people have a chance to succeed. There is no more awesome responsibility than that. One of the greatest honors a person can have is being called 'Coach.'

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

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

Don't ever ask a player to do something he doesn't have the ability to do. He'll just question your ability as a coach, not his as an athlete.

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

Don't let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out over 1,300 times.

Don't tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the ship in.

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

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

Do what's right. Be on time, be polite, and be honest; remain free from drugs; and if you have any questions, get out your Bible. 2. Do your best. Mediocrity is unacceptable when you are capable of doing better. 3. Treat others as you want to be treated. Practice love and understanding.

Do what's right! Do the best you can and treat others the way you want to be treated because they will ask three questions: (1) Can I trust you? (2) Are you committed? (3) Do you care about me as a person?

Everybody needs four things in life:  Something to do, someone to love, someone to believe in and something to hope for.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

Everyone wants to win on Saturday afternoon when the game is played.  It’s what you do the other six days that decides the outcome

First and foremost I am a teacher, I care. Caring is helping the players to develop

Football coaches don't have real problems.

Give me a blackboard. I can stop anything on a blackboard.

For victory in life, we've got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

Give your players something they can physically do - don't ask them to do something they can't do.

God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way.

God looks after children, animals and idiots.

Had I been a great athlete, I'm not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

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

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.

I asked you to pack your headgear and shoulder pads, but more importantly your defense and your kicking game, because that's what wins game like this.

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

I believe - we all pay taxes. I'm happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That's going to bother you.

I believe your attitude is the most important choice you can make.

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

I can't explain why a bride buys her wedding dress, whereas a groom rents his tux.

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. God knows what's best for us, though, so there's no need to worry when things don't go how we originally wanted them to go.