God looks after children, animals and idiots.

At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.

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

It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them.

Everyone wants to win on Saturday afternoon when the game is played. It’s what you do the other six days that decides the outcome

I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.

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