Lou Holtz
Lou Holtz
Louis Leo "Lou" Holtzis a former American football player, coach, and analyst. He served as the head football coach at The College of William & Mary, North Carolina State University, the University of Arkansas, the University of Minnesota, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of South Carolina, compiling a career record of 249–132–7. Holtz's 1988 Notre Dame team went 12–0 with a victory in the Fiesta Bowl and was the consensus national champion. Holtz is the only college...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth6 January 1937
CityFollansbee, WV
CountryUnited States of America
When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.
I don't think we can win every game. Just the next one.
A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.
Underconfidence breeds underachievement.
Momentum is whatever your attitude determines it to be.
When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.
Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.
You can pay people to perform, but you can't pay people to excel.
I can't explain why a bride buys her wedding dress, whereas a groom rents his tux.
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.
At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.
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.
I'm not a disciplinarian. I simply enforce other people's decisions.
The best way to save face is not to use the lower half.