“You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.”

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word.

I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest.

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

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.

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

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.

Eric Schlosser’s book on the economy and strategies of the fast-food business should be read by anyone who likes to take their children to fast-food restaurants.

Of course, what’s not universal is talent. Are you making anything that anyone really should see?

I don’t know anyone who’s going to see Grind 22 times in the theater. My mom. Some kid who has short-term memory loss and forgot that he’s seen it.

If I could have anyone on speed dial it would be George Clooney. He seems like a cool guy who would give good advice.

I don’t think there’s any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that – that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes a target of fanatics.

Writing doesn’t come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency

This party wants to end multiculturalism and discriminate against anyone different.

Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.