Notre Dame Football Quotes

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

Yes, I know that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks, too. But we're gonna fool them.

Let's win one for the Gipper.

It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.

Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died.

I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

Always remember..... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.

At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrassed in front of our friends.

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

On the road we're somebody else's guests - and we play in a way that they're not going to forget we visited them.

I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.

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.

In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

All winning teams are goal-oriented. Teams like these win consistently because everyone connected with them concentrates on specific objectives. They go about their business with blinders on; nothing will distract them from achieving their aims.

The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.

Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

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.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care. You’ve got to make a sincere attempt to have the right goals to begin with, then go after them with appropriate effort, and remember that you can’t really achieve anything great without the help of others.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

Winning means everything...You show me a good loser and I'll show a loser.

There are two kinds of people in the world, Notre Dame lovers and Notre Dame haters. And, quite frankly, they're both a pain in the ass.

There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers.

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.

Sure, I'd love to beat Notre Dame, don't get me wrong. But nothing matters more than beating that cow college on the other side of the state!

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.