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" I don't think there's been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting. "

" I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression. "

" When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least. "

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

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

" In football, it's the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be. "

" I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. God knows what's best for us, though, so there's no need to worry when things don't go how we originally wanted them to go. "

" I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It's good for them. "

" My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life. "

" 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. "

" We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime. "

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

" I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics. "

" Our cellar home had a kitchen and a combination bedroom and half bath, which meant we had a sink next to the bed. We had no refrigerator, no shower or tub, and no privacy. My parents shared the bedroom with my sister and me. "

" No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner. "

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

" I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me. "

" God looks after children, animals and idiots. "

" You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose. "

" Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. "

" My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. "

" 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. "

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

" See, winners embrace hard work. "

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

" I don't drink water, haven't drank water in 40 years. "

" I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known. "

" When all is said and done, more is said than done. "

" Don't run if you can walk. Don't walk if you can stand. Don't stand if you can sit. Don't sit if you can lie down. "