Lou Holtz famous quotes

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.
-- Lou Holtz

#Inspirational #Football #Volleyball

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
-- Lou Holtz

#Motivational #Basketball #Confidence

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

#Inspirational #Promise

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

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

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

#Inspirational #Life #Positive

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

#Inspirational #Way #Break

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

#Motivational #Basketball #Football

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
-- Lou Holtz

#Motivational #Sports #Cheer

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

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
-- Lou Holtz

#Inspirational #Sports #Football

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.
-- Lou Holtz

#Matter #Fields #Winner

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.
-- Lou Holtz

#Inspirational #Life #Life Is

When all is said and done, more is said than done.
-- Lou Holtz

#Motivational #Football #College

In life, be a participant, not a spectator.
-- Lou Holtz

#Motivational #Sports #Life Is

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
-- Lou Holtz

#Sports #Volleyball #Football

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Adversity

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

#Inspirational #Athlete #Sea

You will never be indecisive if you know your purpose.
-- Lou Holtz

#Purpose #Indecisive

If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate.
-- Lou Holtz

#Adequate #Explanation

I don't play well enough to be allowed to throw my clubs.
-- Lou Holtz

#Play #Clubs #Enough

The only people who aren't going to be criticized are those who do absolutely nothing
-- Lou Holtz

#People

Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it's your turn.
-- Lou Holtz

#Preparation #Ordinary #Doe

Only the unprepared are overcome by pressure
-- Lou Holtz

#Overcoming #Unprepared

I'm not a disciplinarian. I simply enforce other people's decisions.
-- Lou Holtz

#Motivational #Decision

I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.
-- Lou Holtz

#Athlete #Adversity #Overcoming

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!
-- Lou Holtz

#Motivational #Sports #Team

You don't go to Notre Dame to learn something, you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.
-- Lou Holtz

#Dames #Notre Dame

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

#Athlete #Winning #Differences

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
-- Lou Holtz

#Motivational #Sports #Football

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

#Motivational #Sports #Humor

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

#Wrestling #Successful #One Day At A Time

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

#Perseverance #Successful #Sacrifice

You live up - or down - to your expectations.
-- Lou Holtz

#Expectations

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

#Motivational #Basketball #Sports

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

#Motivational #Basketball #Teamwork

The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite.
-- Lou Holtz

#Hypocrite #Standards

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

#Opportunity #Thinking #Sometimes

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

#Teamwork #Jobs #Nfl

See, winners embrace hard work.
-- Lou Holtz

#Hard Work #Winner #Embrace

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Sports

Those who know Notre Dame, no explanation’s necessary. Those who don’t, no explanation will suffice.
-- Lou Holtz

#Dames #Notre Dame #Explanation

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

#Blessing #Coaching #Matter

You must have dreams and goals if you are ever going to achieve anything in this world.
-- Lou Holtz

#Dream #Goal #World

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

#Spiritual #Believe #Important

You build a successful life a day at a time.
-- Lou Holtz

#Successful #Self Improvement #Improvement

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

#Volleyball #Spectators

We aren't where we want to be; we aren't where we ought to be; but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be.
-- Lou Holtz

#Want #Goodness #Used

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

#Teamwork #Caring #Player

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.
-- Lou Holtz

#Attitude #Mind #World

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

#Skills #People #Competition

In this world you're either growing or you're dying so get in motion and grow.
-- Lou Holtz

#Growth #Dying #World

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

#Morning #Life And Love #Successful

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.
-- Lou Holtz

#People #Three #Care

No one has ever drowned in sweat.
-- Lou Holtz

#Motivational #Sports #Football

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

#Motivational #Soccer #Sports

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

#Frustration #Confusion #People

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Believe

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

#Responsibility #Rights #Years

It always amazes me that spectators want to coach, coaches want to officiate, and officials just want to watch the game
-- Lou Holtz

#Basketball #Games #Watches

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

#Goal #People #Effort

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
-- Lou Holtz

#Winning #Games #Afternoon

Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think
-- Lou Holtz

#Thinking #Loser #Winner

You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.
-- Lou Holtz

#Inspirational #Confidence #Self Esteem

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.
-- Lou Holtz

#Hard Work #Winning #Hands

It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.
-- Lou Holtz

#Lying #Coaching #Matter