Lou Holtz

1937–2026 · American college football coach · Notre Dame, 1986–1996

Lou Holtz was an American college football coach who led six different programmes to bowl games — William & Mary, North Carolina State, Arkansas, Minnesota, Notre Dame and South Carolina — and finished with a career college record of 249–132–7. His 1988 Notre Dame team went 12–0 and was the consensus national champion. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 2008 and worked as a television analyst for CBS and then ESPN, where the one-liners that fill his quotation pages mostly come from.

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5 quotes we’ve traced to Lou Holtz

“He had shoulder surgery on his elbow”

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“If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today”

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“On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job”

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“The next flag they plant will be all white, and it'll be surrender”

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“They say a tie is like kissing your sister. I guess that is better than kissing your brother”

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