The club's rise under the Bristol-born boss has seen them move from the Championship to rubbing shoulders with the Premier League's big boys.
The Seasiders sit in 10th place after enjoying a good start to life in the top tier, including a stunning victory at Anfield against Liverpool at the start of October.
But Holloway fears that his star-struck players still wanting to swap shirts with some of the game's biggest names meant that they still could not quite believe where they were.
"My lads have got to learn to cope with their own mind and make sure they believe they deserve to be there," he said.
"Even now my boys are swapping shirts and I can't understand it.
"It is like Rocky Balboa - we have got to believe we deserve to be in the ring with the champion.
"Are we here to lose? To have a laugh or be the butt of everybody's jokes?
"Or are we here to be a good, serious footballing team that might have a chance of staying here? If so, why do you want to swap somebody's shirt?
"I can't ban anybody, but I told them at Liverpool I cannot understand it. If I had collected shirts when I played with QPR, how many would I have?
"I was there five years. But what sort of wardrobe would I have needed in which to put them all?"
Birmingham 10/11, Draw 5/2, Blackpool 3/1
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