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

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.

People eyeing you as a potential leader tend to ask three questions: Are you committed? Do you care about me? Can I trust you?

You always have to prepare for the obstacles that are going to come. Consequently, when they do come, it doesn't affect you mentally near as much as when you're unprepared for them.

When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach. Why was something successful? What makes it work? I just try to use my expertise and whatever insight I have to the game.

Give me a blackboard. I can stop anything on a blackboard.

Only the unprepared are overcome by pressure