“In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate.”

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

I am very much in favor of redshirting, but not at Notre Dame. But there’s no doubt about it. It puts us at a huge disadvantage.

I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

At home I have a copy of the April 21, 1986, issue of ‘Sports Illustrated.’ I’m on the cover with the blurb, ‘Can Lou Do It?’ I’d just arrived at Notre Dame, and with spring football underway, I was the focal point of that week’s coverage.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

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.

Greece isn’t a democracy now it’s run through a troika – three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can’t do.

Invaluable….the best one-stop source I’ve seen for what various officials actually said at various times, suffused with intelligent analysis.

Here’s Brian Flynn. His official height is five feet five and he doesn’t look much taller than that

Recent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at a shift toward higher interest rates have unleashed significant volatility in markets.

Unprecedented warnings by officials most closely linked with nuclear arms negotiations and defense strategy indicate that we are running out of time.

There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.