If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.

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

You've got to have great athletes to win, I don't care who the coach is. You can't win without good athletes but you can lose with them. This is where coaching makes the difference.

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.

I believe your attitude is the most important choice you can make.

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

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