Lou Holtz Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“An agent won't help you get drafted higher, won't make you win more games, and won't make you faster or stronger.”

“I don't think there's been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.”

“I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.”

“Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.”

“I'm no genius.”

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

“When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”