Quotes from Lou Holtz

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

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

The key to winning is choosing to do God's will and loving others with all you've got.

After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.

Notre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California.

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

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.

First and foremost I am a teacher, I care. Caring is helping the players to develop

I'm no genius.

You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.

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.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

All my life, I've been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I've come is a bogey.

Football coaches don't have real problems.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that's for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn't play golf.

As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that's all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.

If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.

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.

I've followed Notre Dame football since 1946, when I listened on the radio and Johnny Lujack tackled Doc Blanchard in the open field to preserve a 0-0 tie.

If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.