If the coach insists upon hard play, but clean play, the team will do likewise.
Never tell 'em how many lettermen you've got coming back. Tell 'em how many you lost.
Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
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.
If we're a hit, let 'em say anything they want.
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.