Lou Holtz

“I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.”

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

“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.”

“God looks after children, animals and idiots.”

“I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.”

“At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.”

“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”

“Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.”

“The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.”

“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.”

“Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.”

“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!”

“I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.”

“No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.”

“When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.”

“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.”

“I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.”