“All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.”

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.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

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.

Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you’re not giving it all you’ve got.

It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains.

Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.

The peace of our world is indivisible. As long as negative forces are getting the better of positive forces anywhere, we are all at risk.

Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.

All my businesses are part of the culture, so I have to stay true to whatever I’m feeling at the time, whatever direction I’m heading in.

All pitchers are born pitchers.

The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all merge into one another unless we put on the focusing-glass of theory, and screw it up sometimes to one pitch of definition and sometimes to another, so as to see down into different depths through the great millstone of the world.