“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.”

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.

In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges.

Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you’re gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can’t do parenting right.

I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.

There is a dearth of thinking skills – people are taught what to think, not how.

You put deadlines on people you really don’t want, because that’s how you feel about them.

The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I’ll do it differently later.

There are also so many emotional aspects to money – feelings of inadequacy, feelings of security. I am not sure if there needs to be more about money in fiction, but the absence of this aspect can make a story feel somehow frictionless and unreal.

Certainly the details of our life are unique. Spending time thinking of how I am different from someone else, however, does not tend to be very productive.

I will say that stand-up is my first love; it’s how I got started and is in my bones.