Showing posts with label Lou Holtz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lou Holtz. Show all posts

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Quotes

"Of all things visible, the highest
is the heaven of the fixed stars."
- Nicolaus Copernicus

"Every man is the architect
of his own fortune."
- Sallust

"Writing is the only profession where no one
considers you ridiculous if you earn no money."
- Jules Renard

"A little learning is a dangerous thing
but a lot of ignorance is just as bad."
- Bob Edwards

"Drawing on my fine command of the
English language, I said nothing."
- Robert Benchley

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

Thursday, August 07, 2008

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