Lou Holtz Quotes

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

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

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

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

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

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

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