“How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?”

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.

Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.

All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.

You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

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

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

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

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

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

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they’d be, what position they’d play and so on.

I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that’s been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.

My name’s been on this check for a week now.

We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

Music has always been a big part of my life. It’s kind of like a refuge for me. I just use it to get away.

For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.

Game of Thrones’ is the greatest thing I’ve ever been a part of.

It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.

Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.