Lou Holtz Life Quotations

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

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.

In football, it's the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

I'm an old man, and all my life I've said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it's a national school.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn't allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.

In life, be a participant, not a spectator.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

Everybody needs four things in life: Something to do, someone to love, someone to believe in and something to hope for.