362 Quotes by Lou Holtz

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.

The team that's on defense first (in overtime) has the advantage because they know whether they need a touchdown a field goal or just a score.

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.

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

What's important now? - To evaluate the past, focus on the future, and tell you what you have to do in the present

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.

Football coaches don't have real problems.

Give me a blackboard. I can stop anything on a blackboard.

God looks after children, animals and idiots.