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

Notre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California.

Football coaches don’t have real problems.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you’re ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can’t fire you.

If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that’s all I ever was associated with.

When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

I give opinions, not advice.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

I’m so old, I don’t buy green bananas any more.

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

God looks after children, animals and idiots.

If he’s got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don’t hire him.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin.

Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

I could give 48 penalties in every match if I wanted to.

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.

I could have danced all night!

I could have done a hundred songs, really.

The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.