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" I don't give a damn what anybody says. I don't think at 70 and 75 that you can be as productive and efficient as you were when you were 40 or 50. "
Ara Parseghian
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" You're going to have disappointments. But how you handle those disappointments is the important thing for you and everybody that's around you. That's what I found from being not only a player but also a coach. "
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" You are going to get knocked down, but you don't lie there. You get up and face the challenge. "
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" The burdens of being a head coach are different from being an assistant. If I had been an assistant coach for awhile, then become a head coach, I probably would have lasted longer. "
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" When you set these high expectations and goals, and they are demolished so early in the season, that has an effect on the psyche. It wears you down. "
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" I say college football began with Rockne. "
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" My kids grew up here. My son and daughter both went to Notre Dame. "
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" The game is not won by a pep talk on Saturday. It's won by preparation of your club from Monday until game time. If they're not ready on Saturday, you're not going to get them ready by trying to inspire them with a dog-eat-dog sermon on that day. "
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" I've missed the association with players and coaches but haven't missed the recruiting and the travel. "
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" You learn early in athletics that you'll have ups and downs. "
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" Getting to the top of the mountain is a heck of a lot easier than staying there. "
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" I was a 52-year-old coach. But people don't realize I had 25 years as a head coach. Most coaches my age only had a few years as head coach. I had six years at Miami of Ohio, eight years at Northwestern, 11 at Notre Dame. "
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" I became a head football coach when I was 27 years old at Miami of Ohio. "
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" That's one thing: When I left Notre Dame, when I left every school, what I'm the proudest of is we never compromised the rules, never were on probation, never had any major problems of any kind. "
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" It's a terrific honor. To be associated with the number of people who represent the Cradle of Coaches, it's sort of unreal in a sense. "
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