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

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.

If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.

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.

When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

I give opinions, not advice.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

I’m so old, I don’t buy green bananas any more.

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

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

God looks after children, animals and idiots.

If he’s got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don’t hire him.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

Knowing how to use our breath and tapping into this breath strength is critical for success as strength athletes.

It’s really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you’re still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you’re a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.

You have to have competent people evaluating the athlete, not the housewives!

Do you know how many athletes go broke three years after they stop playing? I want to help them hold on to their money. I mean, I know about budgets.

I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.

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