“I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it’s not always in the way you expect.”

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.

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.

Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.

No matter how old you are, if a little kid hands you a toy phone, you answer it.

My words are written like prayers begging to be answered by you.

You were made for answered prayers.

I’m very outspoken. I will ask a silly question, but I really am deadly serious. I’m like, ‘I want to know the answer.’

When you come calling I’ll answer. But I know I have to keep a piece of my heart just for me.

Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.

All those questions that I was too afraid to ask? In the end I lay down cold welcoming the answers to tear me in half.