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

Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.

I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.

I’m no genius.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

I’ve followed Notre Dame football since 1946, when I listened on the radio and Johnny Lujack tackled Doc Blanchard in the open field to preserve a 0-0 tie.

In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges.

Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

If you made me the national commissioner of football, I’d tell you one thing that I would mandate.

When I didn’t collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.

I don’t think there’s been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.

We had no refrigerator, no shower or tub, and no privacy. My parents shared the bedroom with my sister and me.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

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

In the game of basketball, I play first off because I love it. I love to have fun. I love to run up and down the court.

You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart.

This man [Barack Obama] does not have the interests of our country. That’s not his agenda. His agenda is to bring us down to a third-world country.

For me, heaven is likely to be a bit of a come-down.

If enough oil was held, or if the production fell off, up went the price, only to be knocked down by the throwing of great quantities of stocks on the market.

It comes down to this: either you control money, or it controls you. To control money, you must manage it.

Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.

Whenever I found something remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people be informed thereof.