“I am very much in favor of redshirting, but not at Notre Dame. But there’s no doubt about it. It puts us at a huge disadvantage.”

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on.

At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day.

God knows what’s best for us, though, so there’s no need to worry when things don’t go how we originally wanted them to go.

You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely.

Everybody from the Big Ten is going to play the ACC. Everybody from the Big East is going to play the Pac-10.

This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

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.

I’m an old man, and all my life I’ve said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it’s a national school.

I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

The University of Notre Dame does not redshirt, and I endorse that policy completely.

You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.