“I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.”

I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching.

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.

I was like, boy, I feel so good when I run, if everybody could feel like this, this sense of joy and physical well-being and strength and autonomy you have when you run, how much better the world would be, you know?

The technology gets cheaper and cheaper, and at some point it has to be cheaper than all these trucks and all this gas, to just say, let’s give away a Kindle to everyone.

Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.

We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.

I don’t keep any close friends. I don’t keep any secrets. I don’t need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that’s all.

Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev’rybody loves you now.

I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.

If you can make nature and technology friends, then you can make everyone friends; you can make everyone intact. That’s what women do a lot – they’re the glue between a lot of things.