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" I think that we have opportunities all around us - sometimes we just don't recognize them. "

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" Had I been a great athlete, I'm not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes. "

" 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. "

" Football coaches don't have real problems. "

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

" An agent won't help you get drafted higher, won't make you win more games, and won't make you faster or stronger. "

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

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

" Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It's the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things. "

" 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. "

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

" All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them. "

" I've followed Notre Dame football since 1946, when I listened on the radio and Johnny Lujack tackled Doc Blanchard in the open field to preserve a 0-0 tie. "

" Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference. "

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

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

" I don't exercise. "

" 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. "

" I give opinions, not advice. "

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

" Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God's word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin - and it's gonna happen - confession puts us back on the field. "

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

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

" I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future. "

" If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better. "

" One thing about me is I try to be honest. "

" God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way. "

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

" We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: 'Boy, you are skinny, aren't you?' I said: 'Honey, I'd like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.' "

" Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something. "

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