Lou Holtz Quotes About Coaches

Quotes about: Coaches

• Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Promise, American Football

• 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.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Sports, Attitude

• It always amazes me that spectators want to coach, coaches want to officiate, and officials just want to watch the game

  Lou Holtz

  Basketball, Nba, Games

• No one has ever drowned in sweat.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Sports, Football

• Teamwork is the foundation of success. The three universal questions that an individual asks of his coach, player, employee, employer are: Can I trust you? Are you committed to excellence? And, do you care about me?

  Lou Holtz

  Teamwork, Caring, Player

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

  Lou Holtz

  Success, Sports, Athlete

• The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Basketball, Teamwork

• 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”

• 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

• Absolutely. There are a 1000 better coaches in the cities, but I'm the best in the country.

  Lou Holtz

  Football, Country, College

• 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

• A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.

  Lou Holtz

  Sports, Football, Moving

  Twitter post from Aug 23, 2011

• 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

• When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach. Why was something successful? What makes it work? I just try to use my expertise and whatever insight I have to the game.

  Lou Holtz

  Successful, Games, Trying

  Source: www.sbnation.com

• An agent won't help you get drafted higher, won't make you win more games, and won't make you faster or stronger. They all say they can, but the people who do the drafting don't talk to agents. They talk to coaches, they watch film, they talk to the people who've worked with players. They don't talk to agents.

  Lou Holtz

  Winning, Player, Games

  Source: www.sbnation.com

• 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.

  Lou Holtz

  Golf, Player, Way

• Football coaches don't have real problems.

  Lou Holtz

  Football, Real, Problem

• We are not going to win because you have a new head coach, any more than you are going to fix a flat tire by changing the driver. We will win the minute all of us get rid of excuses as to why we can't win and stop wallowing in self-pity.

  Lou Holtz

  Winning, Self, Tire

• When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.

  Lou Holtz

  Games, Looks, Analysts

• I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me.

  Lou Holtz

  Desire, Want, Feels

• I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.

  Lou Holtz

  Desire, Dames, Records

• I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It's good for them.

  Lou Holtz

  Thinking, Games, Needs

• As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that's all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.

  Lou Holtz

  Country, Athlete, Player

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