Lou Holtz
I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.
I think that we have opportunities all around us - sometimes we just don't recognize them.
If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.
My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.
If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.
ESPN is a great organization to work for.
I don't exercise.
All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.
God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way.
I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me.
Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it's your turn.Collection: Preparation
The greatest power God gave us is the power to choose. We have the opportunity to choose whether we're going to act or procrastinate, believe or doubt, pray or curse, help or heal. We also choose whether we're going to be happy or whether we're going to be sad.Collection: Believe
Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.Collection: Inspirational
The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail.Collection: Success
Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.Collection: Inspirational
Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time.Collection: Wrestling
Teamwork is the foundation of success. The three universal questions that an individual asks of his coach, player, employee, employer are: Can I trust you? Are you committed to excellence? And, do you care about me?Collection: Teamwork
The price of LEADERSHIP is RESPONSIBILITY....and part of that responsibility is to STAY POSITIVE whether you feel like it or not.Collection: Responsibility
Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they thinkCollection: Thinking
Only the unprepared are overcome by pressureCollection: Pressure
I believe your attitude is the most important choice you can make.Collection: Attitude
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.Collection: Want
What you are capable of achieving is determined by your talent and ability. What you attempt to do is determined by your motivation. How well you do something is determined by your attitude.Collection: Motivation
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.Collection: Inspirational
It's the extra effort after you have done your best that creates victory.Collection: Effort
Remember that adversity presents us with numerous possibilities for success, if we are just willing to see them.Collection: Inspirational
There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.Collection: Differences
Actually, all I ever wanted to be was the best in my field.Collection: Fields
It's a better view if you're standing up than if you're laying down.Collection: Motivational
I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.Collection: Success
To my wife 'I told you I was sick'.Collection: Football
One reason I won't compromise is because I believe honesty helps you win over the long haul. You can win a game tomorrow and lose a team. You can lose a game tomorrow and win a football team.Collection: Sports
When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach. Why was something successful? What makes it work? I just try to use my expertise and whatever insight I have to the game.Collection: Successful
A player has no use for an agent. None.Collection: Player
It was a great game if you don't care who won. I cared.Collection: Leadership
Absolutely. There are a 1000 better coaches in the cities, but I'm the best in the country.Collection: Football
My athletes always follow my advice... unless it conflicts with what that they want to do.Collection: Athlete
It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them.Collection: Sports
First we become the best, then we'll become first.Collection: Leadership
No, but you can see it from here.Collection: Football
They say a tie is like kissing your sister. I guess that is better than kissing your brother.Collection: Sports
You can pay people to perform, but you can't pay people to excel.Collection: People
The team that's on defense first (in overtime) has the advantage because they know whether they need a touchdown a field goal or just a score.Collection: Team
The freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities.Collection: Responsibility
Momentum is whatever your attitude determines it to be.Collection: Attitude
All I've seen agents do is talk players into having bad senior seasons because they're trying to keep themselves from getting injured.Collection: Senior
After landing his invasion forces on the shores of some country, the sixteenth-century Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes would immediately burn his own boats. He was sending his army a message: "We can't turn back. Either we succeed here or we die here." Excuses were not an option.Collection: Country
You always have to prepare for the obstacles that are going to come. Consequently, when they do come, it doesn't affect you mentally near as much as when you're unprepared for them.Collection: Obstacles
It's good to be successful but it's great to be significantCollection: Successful