“I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that’s all I ever was associated with.”

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

But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn’t much, so to get $300 more per year.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely.

We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.

I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.

I’m no genius.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

I’ve followed Notre Dame football since 1946, when I listened on the radio and Johnny Lujack tackled Doc Blanchard in the open field to preserve a 0-0 tie.

You should know both the universal and the personal, the realm of forms and the freedom to not cling to them.

I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.

The problem is that the Iraqi people are facing atrocities from both sides – Zarqawi and also the American troops at times.

A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn’t.

The forms of the world have their place, but in another way, there is nothing there. To be free, we need to respect both of these truths.

What the Nation must realize is that the home, when both parents work, is non-existent. Once we have honestly faced that fact, we must act accordingly.

And balancing motherhood and career makes you both a better mother and a better businesswoman.

I’ll fight both of them in one night, and I bet it won’t go 12 rounds.