“But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.”

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.

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 think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence.

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

I’m a bit of a gypsy. I live everywhere; I live out of a bag.

We cut him off and there was nowhere for him to go but out of bounds … It’s still the greatest move I’ve ever seen in basketball, the all-time greatest.

The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.

Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.