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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. God knows what's best for us, though, so there's no need to worry when things don't go how we originally wanted them to go. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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 look like I have beriberi and scurvy. "

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

" 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. "

" God looks after children, animals and idiots. "

" I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for. "

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

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

" When all is said and done, more is said than done. "

" If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who's been successful at another college program, they're going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there. "

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

" 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. "

" After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent. "

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