God looks after children, animals and idiots.
God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way.
At home I have a copy of the April 21, 1986, issue of 'Sports Illustrated.' I'm on the cover with the blurb, 'Can Lou Do It?' I'd just arrived at Notre Dame, and with spring football underway, I was the focal point of that week's coverage.
When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.
I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that's all I ever was associated with.
I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.
I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
Had I been a great athlete, I'm not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.
I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.
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.
At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.
I'm so old, I don't buy green bananas any more.
Notre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California.
Our cellar home had a kitchen and a combination bedroom and half bath, which meant we had a sink next to the bed. We had no refrigerator, no shower or tub, and no privacy. My parents shared the bedroom with my sister and me.
We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: 'Boy, you are skinny, aren't you?' I said: 'Honey, I'd like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.'
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.
Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.
