It's the extra effort after you have done your best that creates victory.

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

To my wife 'I told you I was sick'.

I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.

Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.