Lou Holtz Quotes About Coaching

Quotes about: Coaching

• You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Basketball, Confidence

  Lou Holtz (1990). “The Fighting Spirit: A Championship Season at Notre Dame”

• You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Basketball, Football

• If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.

  Lou Holtz

  Sports, Football, Volleyball

  Twitter post from Aug 24, 2011

• It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.

  Lou Holtz

  Lying, Coaching, Matter

• No one has ever drowned in sweat.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Sports, Football

• I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

  Lou Holtz (1990). “The Fighting Spirit: A Championship Season at Notre Dame”

• I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.

  Lou Holtz

  Success, Sports, Athlete

• If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Sports, Football

• They say a tie is like kissing your sister. I guess that is better than kissing your brother.

  Lou Holtz

  Sports, Brother, Kissing

  "Girls' Basketball: Redondo Beats Mira Costa and I Think About Lou" by Anthony Stitt, latimesblogs.latimes.com. January 31, 2008.

• The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Sports, Humor

• You've got to have great athletes to win, I don't care who the coach is. You can't win without good athletes but you can lose with them. This is where coaching makes the difference.

  Lou Holtz

  Athlete, Winning, Differences

  Lou Holtz (1990). “The Fighting Spirit: A Championship Season at Notre Dame”

• No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and allows you to take pleasure in the blessings you have been given.

  Lou Holtz

  Blessing, Coaching, Matter

• My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn't much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn't even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.

  Lou Holtz

  Football, Jobs, Team

• I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Sports, Team

• Your neighbors will make judgments about you based on how your lawn and house look, and people who see you passing will judge you based on how clean you keep your car. It's not always fair, but it has always been true. Appearances matter, so make yours a good one.

  Lou Holtz

  Judging, Car, People

• Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

• Had I been a great athlete, I'm not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

  Lou Holtz

  Athlete, Careers, Athletic

• Give your players something they can physically do - don't ask them to do something they can't do.

  Lou Holtz

  Sports, Player, Giving

• I'd say handling people is the most important thing you can do as a coach. I've found every time I've gotten into trouble with a player, it's because I wasn't talking to him enough.

  Lou Holtz

  Player, Talking, People

• Don't ever ask a player to do something he doesn't have the ability to do. He'll just question your ability as a coach, not his as an athlete.

  Lou Holtz

  Athlete, Player, Coaching

• My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.

  Lou Holtz

  Football, Jobs, Coaching

• Coaching is about helping young people have a chance
  to succeed. There is no more awesome responsibility
  than that. One of the greatest honors a person can have
  is being called 'Coach.'

  Lou Holtz

  Responsibility, People, Coaching

• Remember this. Bear Bryant retired at age 69, and he died 28 days after he stopped coaching. If you don't have something, and a purpose in your life, you're gonna die.

  Lou Holtz

  Coaching, Age, Bears

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