Lou Holtz
You live up - or down - to your expectations.Collection: Expectations
An agent won't help you get drafted higher, won't make you win more games, and won't make you faster or stronger. They all say they can, but the people who do the drafting don't talk to agents. They talk to coaches, they watch film, they talk to the people who've worked with players. They don't talk to agents.Collection: Winning
I don't play well enough to be allowed to throw my clubs.Collection: Play
Give your players something they can physically do - don't ask them to do something they can't do.Collection: Sports
You might not be able to outthink, outmarket or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.Collection: Motivational
People eyeing you as a potential leader tend to ask three questions: Are you committed? Do you care about me? Can I trust you?Collection: People
Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.Collection: Inspirational
No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and allows you to take pleasure in the blessings you have been given.Collection: Blessing
The only people who aren't going to be criticized are those who do absolutely nothingCollection: People
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.Collection: Football
In adversity, there is opportunity. Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity. I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity. Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.Collection: Motivation
If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial.Collection: Priorities
Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.Collection: Mother
Do what's right! Do the best you can and treat others the way you want to be treated because they will ask three questions: (1) Can I trust you? (2) Are you committed? (3) Do you care about me as a person?Collection: Three
Broadcasting is easy; you just talk until you think of something to say.Collection: Football
You will never be indecisive if you know your purpose.Collection: Purpose
One day you are drinking the wine, and they next day you are picking the grapes.Collection: Sports
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.Collection: Athlete
Those who know Notre Dame, no explanation’s necessary. Those who don’t, no explanation will suffice.Collection: Dames
The best way to save face is not to use the lower half.Collection: Use
I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care. You’ve got to make a sincere attempt to have the right goals to begin with, then go after them with appropriate effort, and remember that you can’t really achieve anything great without the help of others.Collection: People
Do what's right. Be on time, be polite, and be honest; remain free from drugs; and if you have any questions, get out your Bible. 2. Do your best. Mediocrity is unacceptable when you are capable of doing better. 3. Treat others as you want to be treated. Practice love and understanding.Collection: Inspirational
It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.Collection: Lying
Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.Collection: Sports
In life, be a participant, not a spectator.Collection: Motivational
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.Collection: Giving Up
Everybody needs four things in life: Something to do, someone to love, someone to believe in and something to hope for.Collection: Believe
You must have dreams and goals if you are ever going to achieve anything in this world.Collection: Dream
You build a successful life a day at a time.Collection: Successful
The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.Collection: Sports
It always amazes me that spectators want to coach, coaches want to officiate, and officials just want to watch the gameCollection: Basketball
I don't think we can win every game. Just the next one.Collection: Sports
You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.Collection: Inspirational
The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite.Collection: Hypocrite
Everyone wants to win on Saturday afternoon when the game is played. It’s what you do the other six days that decides the outcomeCollection: Winning
I can't explain why a bride buys her wedding dress, whereas a groom rents his tux.Collection: Dresses
Never settle for second when first is availableCollection: Never Settle
Don't tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the ship in.Collection: Inspirational
We are not going to win because you have a new head coach, any more than you are going to fix a flat tire by changing the driver. We will win the minute all of us get rid of excuses as to why we can't win and stop wallowing in self-pity.Collection: Winning
A team wins with the elimination of mistakes and with people who want to win and can't stand losing.Collection: Mistake
If you don't demand that your people maintain. High performances to remain on your team, Why should they be proud of the association?Collection: Motivational
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.Collection: Winning
Remember this. Bear Bryant retired at age 69, and he died 28 days after he stopped coaching. If you don't have something, and a purpose in your life, you're gonna die.Collection: Coaching
So many times people are afraid of competition, when it should bring out the best in us. We all have talents and abilities, so why be intimidated by other people's skills?Collection: Skills
Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you byCollection: Volleyball
We are always faced with different challenges, and circumstances necessitate bringing out the greatness God puts in all of us.Collection: Greatness
The freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities. If you want to fail yourself - you can - but you cannot do your own thing if you have responsibilities to team members.Collection: Team
Don't let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out over 1,300 times.Collection: Ruth