Tag: Lou Holtz
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The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.
Lou Holtz
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If he’s got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don’t hire him.
Lou Holtz
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Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.
Lou Holtz
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Our cellar home had a kitchen and a combination bedroom and half bath, which meant we had a sink next to the bed. We had no refrigerator, no shower or tub, and no privacy. My parents shared the bedroom with my sister and me.
Lou Holtz
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Notre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California.
Lou Holtz
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For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.
Lou Holtz
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On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
Lou Holtz
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If you made me the national commissioner of football, I’d tell you one thing that I would mandate. The second Saturday in September, we’re going to have conference day. Everybody from the SEC plays a Big 12 team. Everybody from the Big Ten is going to play the ACC. Everybody from the Big East is going to play the Pac-10.
Lou Holtz
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In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.
Lou Holtz
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As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that’s all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.
Lou Holtz