God looks after children, animals and idiots.

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

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

The key to winning is choosing to do God's will and loving others with all you've got.

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.

I'm proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It's a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.

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

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'm no genius.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

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

The University of Notre Dame does not redshirt, and I endorse that policy completely. I am very much in favor of redshirting, but not at Notre Dame. But there's no doubt about it. It puts us at a huge disadvantage.

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

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

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.'

Football coaches don't have real problems.

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

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

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

I'm an old man, and all my life I've said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it's a national school.

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.

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.

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

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that's all I ever was associated with.

God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way.

I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

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.

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

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

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

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

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.

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.

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.

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.

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn't much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn't even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.

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.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It's either growing or it's dying. No matter if it's a tree or a human being.

An agent won't help you get drafted higher, won't make you win more games, and won't make you faster or stronger.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

I'm so old, I don't buy green bananas any more.

I believe - we all pay taxes. I'm happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That's going to bother you.

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

I look like I have beriberi and scurvy.

Don't run if you can walk. Don't walk if you can stand. Don't stand if you can sit. Don't sit if you can lie down.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn't allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

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.

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.