Lou Holtz Winning Quotations

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference.

The key to winning is choosing to do God's will and loving others with all you've got.

I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.

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

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

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

I don't think we can win every game. Just the next one.

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.

A team wins with the elimination of mistakes and with people who want to win and can't stand losing.

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.

I asked you to pack your headgear and shoulder pads, but more importantly your defense and your kicking game, because that's what wins game like this.

Everyone wants to win on Saturday afternoon when the game is played. It’s what you do the other six days that decides the outcome

All winning teams are goal-oriented. Teams like these win consistently because everyone connected with them concentrates on specific objectives. They go about their business with blinders on; nothing will distract them from achieving their aims.