Lou Holtz

“After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.”

“I think that we have opportunities all around us - sometimes we just don't recognize them.”

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

“My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.”

“If you made me the national commissioner of football, I'd tell you one thing that I would mandate. The second Saturday in September, we're going to have conference day. Everybody from the SEC plays a Big 12 team. Everybody from the Big Ten is going to play the ACC. Everybody from the Big East is going to play the Pac-10.”

“Football coaches don't have real problems.”

“I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!”

“ESPN is a great organization to work for.”

“If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him.”

“To win a national championship, you've got to be a little lucky.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.”

“I'm so old, I don't buy green bananas any more.”

“When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.”

“At home I have a copy of the April 21, 1986, issue of 'Sports Illustrated.' I'm on the cover with the blurb, 'Can Lou Do It?' I'd just arrived at Notre Dame, and with spring football underway, I was the focal point of that week's coverage.”

“I'm proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It's a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.”

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

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