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

I believe – we all pay taxes. I’m happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That’s going to bother you.

We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.

I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.

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.

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.

I simply haven’t the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

You design the life you want to have.

Without faith, you have nothing. You cannot be saved without it. You cannot be healed without it.

Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell have made no secret of their desire to stamp out individualism and enterprise.

The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.

The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.

If we just had more revelation of what we already have, there would be far less prayers and far more praise.

Every relationship you have, you’re learning and growing and taking something from that.