Lou Holtz Quotes

Football coaches don’t have real problems.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

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

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

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

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.

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

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.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

I don’t think there’s been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.

I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it’s your turn.

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

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