Top 100 Holtz Quotes
#1. Van Holtz, you bastard! You're doing this on purp ... on ... oh! That feels very nice. Do that again.
Shelly Laurenston
#2. Bill Bradfield gave Jack Holtz the stare, but Jack Holtz stared back and said, "That bullshit only works on intelligent people.
Joseph Wambaugh
#3. Don't tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the darn ship in. - Lou Holtz
Lou Holtz
#4. Lou Holtz said, 'Don't complain. Eighty percent of the people you complain to don't care and 20 percent are glad you have problems.
Jon Gordon
#5. It was informational. About how to perform oral sex on men. You know, one man teaching another. It was really fascinating and I've always wondered about the techniques he discussed - ow. Ow! You're squeezing a little hard, Van Holtz."
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"Well, if you're willing to be my test subject - ack!
Shelly Laurenston
#7. Like all the Van Holtz males, Ric was tall, well-built with a slightly overdeveloped diver's body, and handsome. Yet handsome was only the first stop on the beauty train for Ric, who managed to head all the way into the station for The Land of Gorgeous.
Shelly Laurenston
#8. Tom Osborne, Lou Holtz, Bobby Bowden were in our living room. My mom didn't know who they were!
Hines Ward
#9. Ulrich Van Holtz continued to read the latest tome on world economics, pretending to be bored, but in truth absolutely fascinated!
Shelly Laurenston
#10. I'm merely pointing out that the gene that controls intelligence skipped a generation in the Van Holtz household.
Shelly Laurenston
#11. Luke-freakin'-Holtz. Damn. To bad I didn't meet him two months ago. Right now, I can't imagine dating anyone ever again. I'm going to become a nun.
Veronica Blade
#12. I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that's all I ever was associated with.
Lou Holtz
#13. If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial.
Lou Holtz
#14. When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.
Lou Holtz
#15. Nothing on this earth is standing still. It's either growing or it's dying. No matter if it's a tree or a human being.
Lou Holtz
#16. The key to winning is choosing to do God's will and loving others with all you've got.
Lou Holtz
#17. You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.
Lou Holtz
#18. I think that we have opportunities all around us - sometimes we just don't recognize them.
Lou Holtz
#19. It was a great game if you don't care who won. I cared.
Lou Holtz
#20. 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.
Lou Holtz
#21. Remember that adversity presents us with numerous possibilities for success, if we are just willing to see them.
Lou Holtz
#22. 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.
Lou Holtz
#23. 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.'
Lou Holtz
#24. Never tell your problems to any1 ... 20% donot care and 80% are glad to have them ...
Lou Holtz
#25. To win a national championship, you've got to be a little lucky.
Lou Holtz
#26. Give your players something they can physically do - don't ask them to do something they can't do.
Lou Holtz
#27. You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
Lou Holtz
#28. The answer is surprisingly simple. Just do right. Live an honorable life.
Lou Holtz
#29. Everybody needs four things in life: Something to do, someone to love, someone to believe in and something to hope for.
Lou Holtz
#30. You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.
Lou Holtz
#31. 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.
Lou Holtz
#32. I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life.
Lou Holtz
#33. 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.
Lou Holtz
#34. In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
Lou Holtz
#35. No one has ever drowned in sweat.
Lou Holtz
#36. I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.
Lou Holtz
#37. First and foremost I am a teacher, I care. Caring is helping the players to develop
Lou Holtz
#39. 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.
Lou Holtz
#40. I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.
Lou Holtz
#41. On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
Lou Holtz
#42. The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
Lou Holtz
#43. So think before you complain, especially about things that require some sacrifice. Complaining is the sign of a loser.
Lou Holtz
#44. You can't motivate a group of people or a Team. You have to motivate people individually, and that motivation has to be in an environment in which that person has a goal - something they want to accomplish in their lives.
Lou Holtz
#45. Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time.
Lou Holtz
#46. We will use some kind of option and we will throw the football. I hope it will be at our people.
Lou Holtz
#47. I bet you went on one date and wanted to get married.
Lou Holtz
#48. I don't play well enough to be allowed to throw my clubs.
Lou Holtz
#49. It's the extra effort after you have done your best that creates victory.
Lou Holtz
#50. If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.
Lou Holtz
#51. A team wins with the elimination of mistakes and with people who want to win and can't stand losing.
Lou Holtz
#52. Your neighbors will make judgments about you based on how your lawn and house look, and people who see you passing will judge you based on how clean you keep your car. It's not always fair, but it has always been true. Appearances matter, so make yours a good one.
Lou Holtz
#53. An agent won't help you get drafted higher, won't make you win more games, and won't make you faster or stronger.
Lou Holtz
#54. Europeans call it socialism, Americans call it welfare, and Barack Obama calls it change.
Douglas Holtz-Eakin
#55. I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. God knows what's best for us, though, so there's no need to worry when things don't go how we originally wanted them to go.
Lou Holtz
#56. Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.
Lou Holtz
#57. So what if someone wrote your obituary ... that doesn't mean you are obligated to die.
Lou Holtz
#58. They say a tie is like kissing your sister. I guess that is better than kissing your brother.
Lou Holtz
#59. 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
#61. If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.
Lou Holtz
#62. Broadcasting is easy; you just talk until you think of something to say.
Lou Holtz
#63. I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me.
Lou Holtz
#64. Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think
Lou Holtz
#65. It's a better view if you're standing up than if you're laying down.
Lou Holtz
#66. Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
Lou Holtz
#67. 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.
Lou Holtz
#68. If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who's been successful at another college program, they're going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.
Lou Holtz
#69. It always amazes me that spectators want to coach, coaches want to officiate, and officials just want to watch the game
Lou Holtz
#70. The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.
Lou Holtz
#71. I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.
Lou Holtz
#72. 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
#73. 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?
Lou Holtz
#74. Build your empire on the firm foundation of the fundamentals.
Lou Holtz
#75. 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
#76. Don't let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out over 1,300 times.
Lou Holtz
#77. You don't go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.
Lou Holtz
#78. He called on me to save him as I had promised. And I did the same thing that you might have done if you were in my situation. I tried to pretend that I couldn't hear him calling to me.
Lou Holtz
#79. Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.
Lou Holtz
#80. For victory in life, we've got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.
Lou Holtz
#81. Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God's word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin - and it's gonna happen - confession puts us back on the field.
Lou Holtz
#82. Only the unprepared are overcome by pressure
Lou Holtz
#83. All my life, I've been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I've come is a bogey.
Lou Holtz
#84. It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.
Lou Holtz
#85. Football coaches don't have real problems.
Lou Holtz
#86. I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It's good for them.
Lou Holtz
#87. The price of LEADERSHIP is RESPONSIBILITY ... and part of that responsibility is to STAY POSITIVE whether you feel like it or not.
Lou Holtz
#88. 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.
Lou Holtz
#89. 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.
Lou Holtz
#91. Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
Lou Holtz
#92. I've never seen the yellow light, umm the yellow line be wrong.
Lou Holtz
#93. Never tell your problems to anyone ... 20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.
Lou Holtz
#94. If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him.
Lou Holtz
#95. If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate.
Lou Holtz
#96. Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
Lou Holtz
#97. I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
Lou Holtz
#98. I can't explain why a bride buys her wedding dress, whereas a groom rents his tux.
Lou Holtz
#99. My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn't much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn't even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.
Lou Holtz
#100. Adversity is another way to measure
the greatness of individuals. I never had
a crisis that didn't make me stronger.
Lou Holtz
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