Lou Holtz

You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

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.

You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

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

No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.

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

It's very important who your heroes are in life. You tell me who your heroes are, I'll tell you how you're going to turn out.