Quotes by Lou Holtz

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

"In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention."

"We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: 'Boy, you are skinny, aren't you?' I said: 'Honey, I'd like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.'"

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

"I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that's for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn't play golf."

"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."

"Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference."

"Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it."

"You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance."

"I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions."

"I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care."

"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."

"If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today."

"In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities."

"See, winners embrace hard work."

"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."

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

"Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated."

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

"Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It's the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things."

"Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them."

"Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude."

"The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood."

"Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated."

"When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach."

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

"We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime."

"I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it."

"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."

"I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary."