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" If you try to fight the course, it will beat you. "

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" If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him. "

" 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. "

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

" No one has ever drowned in sweat. "

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

" The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood. "

" I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life. "

" When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be. "

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

" I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did. "

" 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. "

" 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 follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care. "

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" Notre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California. "

" At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. 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. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week. "

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

" I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary. "

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

" If you made me the national commissioner of football, I'd tell you one thing that I would mandate. The second Saturday in September, we're going to have conference day. Everybody from the SEC plays a Big 12 team. Everybody from the Big Ten is going to play the ACC. Everybody from the Big East is going to play the Pac-10. "

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

" Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity. "

" 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 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. "

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

" I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it. "

" 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. "

" My wife doesn't even want to spend 2 hours with me. "

" You don't go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody. "

" I'm so old, I don't buy green bananas any more. "

" 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. "