362 Quotes by Lou Holtz

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

Don’t let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out over 1,300 times.

He called on me to save him as I had promised. And I did the same thing that you might have done if you were in my situation. I tried to pretend that I couldn’t hear him calling to me.

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

The only people who aren’t going to be criticized are those who do absolutely nothing.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

It’s not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It’s my job not to de-motivate them.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

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.