“I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.”

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word.

I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest.

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

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.

Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.

All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.

You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

The University of Notre Dame does not redshirt, and I endorse that policy completely.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

I took a little bit of what I liked and what I had seen throughout the years from everybody that I was entertained by and made it my own.

I thought anything that feels this good and makes me want to tap my foot like this can’t be a passing fad like everybody says.

I was like, boy, I feel so good when I run, if everybody could feel like this, this sense of joy and physical well-being and strength and autonomy you have when you run, how much better the world would be, you know?

The technology gets cheaper and cheaper, and at some point it has to be cheaper than all these trucks and all this gas, to just say, let’s give away a Kindle to everyone.

Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.

We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.

I don’t keep any close friends. I don’t keep any secrets. I don’t need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that’s all.

Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev’rybody loves you now.