Lou Holtz Quotes

I watch a lot of NBA basketball, especially with the playoffs.

I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I'd probably get back into coaching. I missed the teaching, I missed the games, I missed the competition.

I'm going to continue to see my friends who coach in the NBA and see my former players who play in the NBA. I'm going to continue to go to games.

It's not easy to win 60 games in the NBA.

It wasn't until I moved to Spain that I actually got my first glimpse of the NBA. I'd watch this program called 'NBA Action,' which came on every week and showed clips from different games.

I was buddies with Dennis Rodman back in the day; actually, I am still buddies with him, and so I have gone to a lot of games and always enjoyed it.

What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots

Those to whom defense is not important will have the best seat in the game

Michael Jordan was a great individual and a great player. You can't say enough about what he brought to the game. He took the NBA to another level.

I'm very, very confident in my ability to see the game - even before it's played.

It [would have] been very difficult. As I said, the rules ... but if the rules were put in place back when Michael Jordan was in his prime - no hand-checking, the game was more geared toward offense, wanting to promote scoring in the game - he could have probably got close. He did score 69.

The thing I love about the NBA game is that it's a playmaker's league.

The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play.

I have had some bad shooting games but that doesn't stop me from getting the ball to my teammates

Remember that basketball is a game of habits. If you make the other guy deviate from his habits, you've got him

The Chicago Bulls’ Michael Jordan’s three-point explosion in Game 1 of the 1992 NBA Finals against Portland is easily one of the greatest performances I’ve ever seen. As he made his sixth straight, he winked directly at (broadcast partner) Mike (Fratello) and me and held his palms up in a shrug, as if to say, What can I do?

Flash, take the game off. I'll go out and do the work.

Brook Lopez had a better game than Deron Williams

One of the hardest things for a ball player to do is to accept his role

No one who has experienced the intense involvement of computer modeling would deny that the temptation exists to use any data input that will enable one to continue playing what is perhaps the ultimate game of solitaire.

I'm not going to go home and drink rat urine.

It's part of my game, getting to the free-throw line and being aggressive. If you say that I get superstar calls or I get babied by the refs, that's just taking away from how I play. That's disrespectful to me.

The best part of basketball, for those people on the inside, is the bus going to the airport after you've won a game on an opponent's floor. It's been a very tough battle. And preferably, in the playoffs. And that feeling that you have, together as a group, having gone to an opponent's floor and won a very good victory, is as about as high as you can get.

What do you do to help us win when you're not scoring baskets?

I always laugh when people ask me about rebounding techniques. I've got a technique. It's called just go get the damn ball.