362 Quotes by Lou Holtz

We had a lot of people call us. And a lot of people we played, they were all the sudden using it the next year.

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.

People eyeing you as a potential leader tend to ask three questions: Are you committed? Do you care about me? Can I trust you?

We only had one more meal. I thought I was safe.

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.

With his optimism and with the new enthusiasm that a new coach always brings, I think he can take it to the championship level, and I will be surprised if he doesn't win the championship. Not that it will be easy, but he's a very talented individual.

The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

You get in that traditional punt formation and you spend hours trying to pick this up and that up. We didn't spend one-fifteenth that time in our spread-punt formation.