Quotes from Lou Holtz

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

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.

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.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by

For victory in life, we've got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

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.'

I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.

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.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

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.

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

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

In this world you're either growing or you're dying so get in motion and grow.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

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.