I've Found That Prayers Work Best When

Generalities Don't Count And Won't Help You In Football.

I Don't Like To Lose, And That Isn't So Much Because It Is Just A Football Game, But Because Defeat Means The Failure To Reach Your Objective. I Don't Want A Football Player Who Doesn't Take Defeat To Heart, Who Laughs It Off With The Thought, "oh, Well, There's Another Saturday." The Trouble In American Life Today, In Business As Well As In Sports, Is That Too Many People Are Afraid Of Competition. The Result Is That In Some Circles People Have Come To Sneer At Success If It Costs Hard Work And Training And Sacrifice.

The Morning We Left South Bend, Every Student And Professor Was Out Of Bed Long Before Breakfast And Marched Downtown Accompanying The Team To The Railroad Station. It Was The First Time I'd Seen Anything Like This Mass Hysteria Generated On The Notre Dame Campus Over A Football Game.

The Only Qualifications For A Lineman Are To Be Big And Dumb. To Be A Back, You Only Have To Be Dumb.

The Secret Is To Work Less As Individuals And More As A Team. As A Coach, I Play Not My Eleven Best, But My Best Eleven.