Lou Holtz

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

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

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

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.

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.

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

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

I'm an old man, and all my life I've said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it's a national school.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn't allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

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.