“For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.”

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching.

Our cellar home had a kitchen and a combination bedroom and half bath, which meant we had a sink next to the bed.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends.

I don’t exercise.

As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that’s all you would read about in the papers all over the country.

I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

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

Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.

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

When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

Notre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California.

Football coaches don’t have real problems.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you’re ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can’t fire you.

America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.

It’s been our goal as a program to always give our players the best opportunity to be successful, whether it’s personally, academically, or athletically.

I set some goals for myself. I really want to run through this whole heavyweight division.

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.

On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish.

I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age.

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.