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" The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. "

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

" 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 do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It's good for them. "

" 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. "

" It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" See, winners embrace hard work. "

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

" 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. "

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

" How do you know what it's like to be stupid if you've never been smart? "

" In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities. "

" I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" No one has ever drowned in sweat. "

" How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser. "

" 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. "

" At home I have a copy of the April 21, 1986, issue of 'Sports Illustrated.' I'm on the cover with the blurb, 'Can Lou Do It?' I'd just arrived at Notre Dame, and with spring football underway, I was the focal point of that week's coverage. "

" I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't exercise. "

" All my life, I've been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I've come is a bogey. "

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