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.

Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself.

I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective.

When you were riding on the crest of a wave, youwere most likely to be missing out on something.

We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is - don't lose.

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.