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" 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. "

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

" We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera. "

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

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

" 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'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him. "

" 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. "

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

" Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. "

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

" 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 don't exercise. "

" It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test. "

" Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by. "

" If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today. "

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

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

" 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. "

" On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job. "

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

" When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated. "

" As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that's all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it. "

" If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals. "