“Dracula and LSU Football are at their best after the sun goes down.”

You only have to bat 1.000 in two things-flying and heart transplants. Everything else, you can go four in five.

The first word you see at the airport is ‘terminal’.

Ron Powlus will win the Heisman two times and be the greatest quarterback in the history of Notre Dame.

You’ll never have a 16-team playoff in college football. The most that could happen would be four teams in the next century. But after that, I’m dead, so who cares?

Nebraska sets the standard for how fans should act.

I hate it. I just do. That [artificial turf], local news, the IRS, and hair dryers are the four worst inventions of the century.

Best scene in college football is at LSU on a Saturday night.

My first on the bucket list will be a night game at LSU. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there. Of all the things in college sports, that would be No. 1.

I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says ‘No’, then you have to knock on the next door.

Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

Don’t let winning make you soft. Don’t let losing make you quit. Don’t let your teammates down in any situation.

Now that I’m an old, old veteran-age 29-I do things a lot differently. I don’t go to the gentlemen’s clubs anymore. I had to slow that down.

I’m like a chameleon. I adapt to my situation. It’s very slowed down here. I like it that way. I’m a guy that’s very reserved, quiet and shy myself.

If people around you aren’t going anywhere, if their dreams are no bigger than hanging out on the corner, or if they’re dragging you down, get rid of them.

When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.