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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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" 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. "

Ara Parseghian

Early

You

Expectations

" I became a head football coach when I was 27 years old at Miami of Ohio. "

" 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. "

" My kids grew up here. My son and daughter both went to Notre Dame. "

Ara Parseghian

Daughter

Son

" I don't make hasty, impulsive decisions. "

" On any play where there's a scramble of 22 men, blindside hits and unprotected hits on knees occur. "

" I say college football began with Rockne. "

" The harder you work, the less mistakes you make. The fewer mistakes you make, the better your chances of winning. "

" I learned long ago not to tear into anyone for a mistake. "

" That's the unpredictable part, and that's what worries every coach: Protect the football. That's why, when you go into a ballgame, you may be favored, but there's no guarantee you're going to win it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" One thing about Notre Dame, it's like a service academy in a lot of ways. There is a closeness. "

" One of the reasons I never went into pro football was because I wanted my kids to grow up around an academic environment. And that's exactly what we did. "

Ara Parseghian

Environment

Grow Up

" 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. "

" After Notre Dame, what is there? "

" You are going to get knocked down, but you don't lie there. You get up and face the challenge. "

" Money talks; there's no question about it. "

" I have been around football all of my life. "

" Getting to the top of the mountain is a heck of a lot easier than staying there. "

" You learn early in athletics that you'll have ups and downs. "

" I've missed the association with players and coaches but haven't missed the recruiting and the travel. "