The morning we left South Bend, every student and professor was out of bed long before breakfast and marched downtown accompanying the team to the railroad station. It was the first time I'd seen anything like this mass hysteria generated on the Notre Dame campus over a football game.

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.

Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now.

On the road we're somebody else's guests - and we play in a way that they're not going to forget we visited them.

Never tell 'em how many lettermen you've got coming back. Tell 'em how many you lost.

Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.