“We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends.”

I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.

When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.

See, winners embrace hard work.

I’m proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It’s a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.

My wife looked at me and said: ‘Boy, you are skinny, aren’t you?’ I said: ‘Honey, I’d like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.’

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on.

At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day.

God knows what’s best for us, though, so there’s no need to worry when things don’t go how we originally wanted them to go.

You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.

They who pass their whole lives in working for their daily bread, have no ideas beyond their business or their interest, and all their understanding seems to lie in their fingers ends.

Taxes on the very necessaries of life, enable an endless tribe of idle princes and princesses to pass with stupid pomp before a gaping crowd, who almost worship the very parade which costs them so dear.

Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward.

If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.

Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.