Lou Holtz Quotes

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.

The price of LEADERSHIP is RESPONSIBILITY….and part of that responsibility is to STAY POSITIVE whether you feel like it or not.

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

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.

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.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

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.

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

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Remember that adversity presents us with numerous possibilities for success, if we are just willing to see them.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

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.’

You might not be able to outthink, outmarket or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.