I'm proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It's a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.
If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
To win a national championship, you've got to be a little lucky.
I don't think there's been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.
In football, it's the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.
I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.
The key to winning is choosing to do God's will and loving others with all you've got.
In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who's been successful at another college program, they're going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.
When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.
I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me.
In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.
I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that's for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn't play golf.
I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It's good for them.
Football coaches don't have real problems.
Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
If you made me the national commissioner of football, I'd tell you one thing that I would mandate. The second Saturday in September, we're going to have conference day. Everybody from the SEC plays a Big 12 team. Everybody from the Big Ten is going to play the ACC. Everybody from the Big East is going to play the Pac-10.
On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
