“To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.”

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.

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.