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I don't think there's been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.
— Lou Holtz
If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial.
— Lou Holtz
Never settle for second when first is available
— Lou Holtz
It always amazes me that spectators want to coach, coaches want to officiate, and officials just want to watch the game
— Lou Holtz
Give your players something they can physically do - don't ask them to do something they can't do.
— Lou Holtz
You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.
— Lou Holtz
When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.
— Lou Holtz
The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite.
— Lou Holtz
If you make a fist and hold it for two hours, you won't be able to pick up a glass because you'll be so weak. Let's stay loose. Let's have fun.
— Lou Holtz
I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.
— Lou Holtz
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
It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.
— Lou Holtz
If you don't demand that your people maintain. High performances to remain on your team, Why should they be proud of the association?
— Lou Holtz
We will use some kind of option and we will throw the football. I hope it will be at our people.
— Lou Holtz
I give opinions, not advice.
— Lou Holtz
I think that we have opportunities all around us - sometimes we just don't recognize them.
— Lou Holtz
Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.
— Lou Holtz
Don't run if you can walk. Don't walk if you can stand. Don't stand if you can sit. Don't sit if you can lie down.
— Lou Holtz
What's important now? - To evaluate the past, focus on the future, and tell you what you have to do in the present
— Lou Holtz
I look like I have beriberi and scurvy.
— Lou Holtz
The price of LEADERSHIP is RESPONSIBILITY ... and part of that responsibility is to STAY POSITIVE whether you feel like it or not.
— Lou Holtz
I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.
— Lou Holtz
Absolutely. There are a 1000 better coaches in the cities, but I'm the best in the country.
— Lou Holtz
ESPN is a great organization to work for.
— Lou Holtz
God looks after children, animals and idiots.
— Lou Holtz
You might not be able to outthink, outmarket or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.
— Lou Holtz
Those who know Notre Dame, no explanation's necessary. Those who don't, no explanation will suffice.
— Lou Holtz
Don't ever ask a player to do something he doesn't have the ability to do. He'll just question your ability as a coach, not his as an athlete.
— Lou Holtz
I'm so old, I don't buy green bananas any more.
— 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
When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.
— Lou Holtz
Only the unprepared are overcome by pressure
— Lou Holtz
We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.
— Lou Holtz
A team wins with the elimination of mistakes and with people who want to win and can't stand losing.
— Lou Holtz
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
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
Everybody needs four things in life: Something to do, someone to love, someone to believe in and something to hope for.
— Lou Holtz
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
I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.
— Lou Holtz
You build a successful life a day at a time.
— Lou Holtz
My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.
— Lou Holtz
One thing about me is I try to be honest.
— Lou Holtz
When all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
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I asked you to pack your headgear and shoulder pads, but more importantly your defense and your kicking game, because that's what wins game like this.
— Lou Holtz
Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it's your turn.
— Lou Holtz
All you need is something to say, and a burning desire to say it ... it doesn't matter where your hands are.
— Lou Holtz
I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.
— Lou Holtz
If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you are doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking.
— Lou Holtz
No one has ever drowned in sweat.
— Lou Holtz
No, but you can see it from here.
— Lou Holtz
Football coaches don't have real problems.
— Lou Holtz