Quotes - Lou Holtz

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No one has ever drowned in sweat.
- Lou Holtz

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

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

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

There's nothing is this world more
instinctively abhorrent to me than
finding myself in agreement with my
fellow-humans.
- Lou Holtz