“You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.”
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Famous Lou Holtz Quotes
“I think that we have opportunities all around us - sometimes we just don't recognize them.”
“On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.”
“Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.”
“If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him.”
“In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.”
“When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.”
“I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It's good for them.”
“If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.”
“My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.”
Source: Wins, Losses, and Lessons: An Autobiography
“My athletes always follow my advice... unless it conflicts with what that they want to do.”
“So what if someone wrote your obituary... that doesn't mean you are obligated to die.”
“My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.”
“You can pay people to perform, but you can't pay people to excel.”
“I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.”
“Don't let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out over 1,300 times.”
“Give me a blackboard. I can stop anything on a blackboard.”
“In this world you're either growing or you're dying so get in motion and grow.”
“Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think”
“Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.”