Lou Holtz
Lou Holtz
Louis Leo "Lou" Holtzis a former American football player, coach, and analyst. He served as the head football coach at The College of William & Mary, North Carolina State University, the University of Arkansas, the University of Minnesota, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of South Carolina, compiling a career record of 249–132–7. Holtz's 1988 Notre Dame team went 12–0 with a victory in the Fiesta Bowl and was the consensus national champion. Holtz is the only college...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth6 January 1937
CityFollansbee, WV
CountryUnited States of America
Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It's the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.
It's good to be successful but it's great to be significant
Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.
Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time.
In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
You build a successful life a day at a time.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.
The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail.
If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who's been successful at another college program, they're going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.
I said they were capable of it. I didn't say they were going to do it.
We had a lot of people call us. And a lot of people we played, they were all the sudden using it the next year.
Knowing Bill Snyder and the disciplinarian he is and the approach he has, yeah, I think he will bounce back, ... And he doesn't have to be real good to be pretty good in that North.
The alumni buried me every week. The plots have a view of the dome. It's a better view if you're standing up than if you're laying down.