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

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.

I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest.

I’m an old man, and all my life I’ve said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it’s a national school.

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.

Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.

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

You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

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.

Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.

All children need their fathers, but boys especially need fathers to teach them how to be men.

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.