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

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they’d be, what position they’d play and so on.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn’t even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.

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.

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.

Gunna ain’t never wrote no song for me. He just showed me how to rap.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

How can I die? I’m booked.

How you think, and how much you think, is so important in golf.

The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?

Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.

That’s one of our biggest challenges is finding out how to do that. There are times when you have to scale back.

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.