Lou Holtz was an American football coach who had a long and successful career. He was the head coach of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish from 1986 to 1996, during which time he won a national championship in 1988. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2008. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Lou Holtz on winning, leadership, osu.
Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it's your turn.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.
Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference.
If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.
It's the extra effort after you have done your best that creates victory.
Lou Holtz Quotes About Winning
Attitude determines how well you do it. — Lou Holtz
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. — Lou Holtz
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. — Lou Holtz
You're never s good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose. — Lou Holtz
We are not going to win because you have a new head coach, any more than you are going to fix a flat tire by changing the driver. We will win the minute all of us get rid of excuses as to why we can't win and stop wallowing in self-pity. — Lou Holtz
You've got to have great athletes to win, I don't care who the coach is. You can't win without good athletes but you can lose with them. This is where coaching makes the difference. — Lou Holtz
A team wins with the elimination of mistakes and with people who want to win and can't stand losing. — Lou Holtz
One reason I won't compromise is because I believe honesty helps you win over the long haul. You can win a game tomorrow and lose a team. You can lose a game tomorrow and win a football team. — Lou Holtz
The key to winning is choosing to do God's will and loving others with all you've got. — Lou Holtz
After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent. — Lou Holtz
Lou Holtz Quotes About Leadership
The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail. — Lou Holtz
It was a great game if you don't care who won. I cared. — Lou Holtz
First and foremost I am a teacher, I care. Caring is helping the players to develop — Lou Holtz
We will use some kind of option and we will throw the football. I hope it will be at our people. — Lou Holtz
First we become the best, then we'll become first. — Lou Holtz
The price of LEADERSHIP is RESPONSIBILITY....and part of that responsibility is to STAY POSITIVE whether you feel like it or not. — Lou Holtz
Lou Holtz Quotes About Success
Teamwork is the foundation of success. The three universal questions that an individual asks of his coach, player, employee, employer are: Can I trust you? Are you committed to excellence? And, do you care about me? — Lou Holtz
Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time. — Lou Holtz
In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention. — Lou Holtz
You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance. — Lou Holtz
I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity. — Lou Holtz
You build a successful life a day at a time. — Lou Holtz
Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law. — Lou Holtz
We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime. — Lou Holtz
Remember that adversity presents us with numerous possibilities for success, if we are just willing to see them. — Lou Holtz
If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who's been successful at another college program, they're going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there. — Lou Holtz
Lou Holtz Quotes About Motivation
Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated. — Lou Holtz
What you are capable of achieving is determined by your talent and ability. What you attempt to do is determined by your motivation. How well you do something is determined by your attitude. — Lou Holtz
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. — Lou Holtz
In life, be a participant, not a spectator. — Lou Holtz
The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones. — Lou Holtz
It's a better view if you're standing up than if you're laying down. — Lou Holtz
They say a tie is like kissing your sister. I guess that is better than kissing your brother. — Lou Holtz
It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them. — Lou Holtz
Give your players something they can physically do - don't ask them to do something they can't do. — Lou Holtz
If you don't demand that your people maintain. High performances to remain on your team, Why should they be proud of the association? — Lou Holtz
Lou Holtz Quotes About Life
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. — Lou Holtz
Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it. — Lou Holtz
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. — Lou Holtz
No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and allows you to take pleasure in the blessings you have been given. — Lou Holtz
Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by. — Lou Holtz
For victory in life, we've got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven. — Lou Holtz
Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it. — Lou Holtz
The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn't allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability. — Lou Holtz
I just have an enthusiasm for life. — Lou Holtz
Everybody needs four things in life: Something to do, someone to love, someone to believe in and something to hope for. — Lou Holtz
Lou Holtz Quotes About Motivational
You can't motivate a group of people or a Team. You have to motivate people individually, and that motivation has to be in an environment in which that person has a goal - something they want to accomplish in their lives. — Lou Holtz
Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger. — Lou Holtz
I'm not a disciplinarian. I simply enforce other people's decisions. — Lou Holtz
The answer is surprisingly simple. Just do right. Live an honorable life. — Lou Holtz
You might not be able to outthink, outmarket or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them. — Lou Holtz
Lou Holtz Quotes About Inspirational
Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise. — Lou Holtz
You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be. — Lou Holtz
Don't tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the ship in. — Lou Holtz
Lou Holtz Quotes About Notre
Those who know Notre Dame, no explanation’s necessary. Those who don’t, no explanation will suffice. — Lou Holtz
You don't go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody. — Lou Holtz
When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again. — Lou Holtz
Notre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California. — Lou Holtz
I've followed Notre Dame football since 1946, when I listened on the radio and Johnny Lujack tackled Doc Blanchard in the open field to preserve a 0-0 tie. — Lou Holtz
I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future. — Lou Holtz
I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for. — Lou Holtz
I'm an old man, and all my life I've said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it's a national school. — Lou Holtz
At home I have a copy of the April 21, 1986, issue of 'Sports Illustrated.' I'm on the cover with the blurb, 'Can Lou Do It?' I'd just arrived at Notre Dame, and with spring football underway, I was the focal point of that week's coverage. — Lou Holtz
The University of Notre Dame does not redshirt, and I endorse that policy completely. I am very much in favor of redshirting, but not at Notre Dame. But there's no doubt about it. It puts us at a huge disadvantage. — Lou Holtz
Lou Holtz Quotes About People
People eyeing you as a potential leader tend to ask three questions: Are you committed? Do you care about me? Can I trust you? — Lou Holtz
The only people who aren't going to be criticized are those who do absolutely nothing — Lou Holtz
So many times people are afraid of competition, when it should bring out the best in us. We all have talents and abilities, so why be intimidated by other people's skills? — Lou Holtz
In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities. — Lou Holtz
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. — Lou Holtz
The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood. — Lou Holtz
When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least. — Lou Holtz
We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera. — Lou Holtz
I'd say handling people is the most important thing you can do as a coach. I've found every time I've gotten into trouble with a player, it's because I wasn't talking to him enough. — Lou Holtz
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.' — Lou Holtz
Lou Holtz Quotes About Coach
It always amazes me that spectators want to coach, coaches want to officiate, and officials just want to watch the game — Lou Holtz
It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie. — Lou Holtz
A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you. — Lou Holtz
Absolutely. There are a 1000 better coaches in the cities, but I'm the best in the country. — Lou Holtz
My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn't much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn't even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments. — Lou Holtz
No, but you can see it from here. — Lou Holtz
Football coaches don't have real problems. — Lou Holtz
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. — Lou Holtz
In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be. — Lou Holtz
When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach. — Lou Holtz
Lou Holtz Quotes About Football
Broadcasting is easy; you just talk until you think of something to say. — Lou Holtz
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. — Lou Holtz
To my wife 'I told you I was sick'. — Lou Holtz
If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback. — Lou Holtz
I don't think there's been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting. — Lou Holtz
If you make a fist and hold it for two hours, you won't be able to pick up a glass because you'll be so weak. Let's stay loose. Let's have fun. — Lou Holtz
Lou Holtz Famous Quotes And Sayings
When all is said and done, more is said than done. — Lou Holtz
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period. — Lou Holtz
Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated. — Lou Holtz
Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it. — Lou Holtz
You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him. — Lou Holtz
The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite. — Lou Holtz
There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it. — Lou Holtz
If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you are doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. — Lou Holtz
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. — Lou Holtz
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? — Lou Holtz
I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it. — Lou Holtz
I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care. You’ve got to make a sincere attempt to have the right goals to begin with, then go after them with appropriate effort, and remember that you can’t really achieve anything great without the help of others. — Lou Holtz
I can't explain why a bride buys her wedding dress, whereas a groom rents his tux. — Lou Holtz
On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job. — Lou Holtz
You will never be indecisive if you know your purpose. — Lou Holtz
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today. — Lou Holtz
You must have dreams and goals if you are ever going to achieve anything in this world. — Lou Holtz
Never settle for second when first is available — Lou Holtz
God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way. — Lou Holtz
If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial. — Lou Holtz
Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think — Lou Holtz
So what if someone wrote your obituary... that doesn't mean you are obligated to die. — Lou Holtz
Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude. — Lou Holtz
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. — Lou Holtz
The freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities. If you want to fail yourself - you can - but you cannot do your own thing if you have responsibilities to team members. — Lou Holtz
I believe your attitude is the most important choice you can make. — Lou Holtz
Only the unprepared are overcome by pressure — Lou Holtz
Build your empire on the firm foundation of the fundamentals. — Lou Holtz
Don't let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out over 1,300 times. — Lou Holtz
One day you are drinking the wine, and they next day you are picking the grapes. — Lou Holtz
In adversity, there is opportunity. Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity. I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity. Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger. — Lou Holtz
What's important now? - To evaluate the past, focus on the future, and tell you what you have to do in the present — Lou Holtz
In football, it's the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be. — Lou Holtz
If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide. — Lou Holtz
All you need is something to say, and a burning desire to say it... it doesn't matter where your hands are. — Lou Holtz
All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them. — Lou Holtz
I'm proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It's a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition. — Lou Holtz
Life Lessons by Lou Holtz
Lou Holtz taught that hard work and dedication can help you achieve your goals, no matter how difficult they may seem.
He also taught the importance of having a positive attitude and believing in yourself, even in the face of adversity.
Finally, he taught that success is not just about winning, but also about having the courage to take risks and learn from your mistakes.
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