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 More Quotes by Lou Holtz More Quotes From Lou Holtz 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. Lou Holtz athlete player country The freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities. If you want to fail yourself - you can - but you cannot do your own thing if you have responsibilities to team members. Lou Holtz team responsibility want A team wins with the elimination of mistakes and with people who want to win and can't stand losing. Lou Holtz team winning mistake Build your empire on the firm foundation of the fundamentals. Lou Holtz empires foundation fundamentals To my wife 'I told you I was sick'. Lou Holtz sick college football Only the unprepared are overcome by pressure Lou Holtz unprepared pressure overcoming 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. Lou Holtz balance twenties average I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics. Lou Holtz If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback. Lou Holtz quarterback woods football My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. Lou Holtz coaching jobs football I just have an enthusiasm for life. Lou Holtz enthusiasm-for-life enthusiasm My athletes always follow my advice... unless it conflicts with what that they want to do. Lou Holtz athlete want advice 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 motivation team people I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future. Lou Holtz dames records desire If you want to get a deal, negotiate with the teams yourself. Say, "I want this much, and no less, but I'll show up to camp on time." It doesn't seem that hard to me. Lou Holtz team shows want I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression. Lou Holtz eight wall winning All you need is something to say, and a burning desire to say it... it doesn't matter where your hands are. Lou Holtz desire hands needs God looks after children, animals and idiots. Lou Holtz animal children looks The freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities. Lou Holtz obligation ends responsibility Absolutely. There are a 1000 better coaches in the cities, but I'm the best in the country. Lou Holtz college football country
