On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

One day you are drinking the wine, and they next day you are picking the grapes.

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

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.

We are not going to win because you have a new head coach, any more than you are going to fix a flat tire by changing the driver. We will win the minute all of us get rid of excuses as to why we can't win and stop wallowing in self-pity.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.