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

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

To win a national championship, you've got to be a little lucky.

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

You can pay people to perform, but you can't pay people to excel.

I believe your attitude is the most important choice you can make.

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

It's a better view if you're standing up than if you're laying down.

I'm not a disciplinarian. I simply enforce other people's decisions.

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

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

Don't let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out over 1,300 times.

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

Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think

Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.

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

Broadcasting is easy; you just talk until you think of something to say.

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

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

It's the extra effort after you have done your best that creates victory.

The answer is surprisingly simple. Just do right. Live an honorable life.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.

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

The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.

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

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

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

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.

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

In this world you're either growing or you're dying so get in motion and grow.

One day you are drinking the wine, and they next day you are picking the grapes.

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

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.

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

I can't explain why a bride buys her wedding dress, whereas a groom rents his tux.

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

For victory in life, we've got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

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

First and foremost I am a teacher, I care. Caring is helping the players to develop

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

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

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me.

If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate.

The freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities.

The only people who aren't going to be criticized are those who do absolutely nothing

So what if someone wrote your obituary... that doesn't mean you are obligated to die.

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