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

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

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 failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing up.

Mike Huckabee says the answer to our problems is to cure all diseases. I guess no one’s thought of that before.

I think you have to work very hard and dedicate yourself and have the respect of your teammates before you’re about to go out and just try to take a game over by yourself.

We will stop the terrorist attacks before they occur because we will not be prisoners to political correctness. Rather, we will speak the truth. Border security is national security and we will not be admitting jihadists as refugees.

Taste goodness before you recommend it.

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do – and not only for operating, but for everything.

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.