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The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.

If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial.

I've never seen the yellow light, umm the yellow line be wrong.

Never settle for second when first is available

It always amazes me that spectators want to coach, coaches want to officiate, and officials just want to watch the game

Give your players something they can physically do - don't ask them to do something they can't do.

You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.

Nothing is as good as it seems, and nothing is as bad as it seems. Somewhere in between lies realty.

Don't tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the darn ship in. - Lou Holtz

Give me a blackboard. I can stop anything on a blackboard.

You can pay people to perform, but you can't pay people to excel.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

If you make a fist and hold it for two hours, you won't be able to pick up a glass because you'll be so weak. Let's stay loose. Let's have fun.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

I can't explain why a bride buys her wedding dress, whereas a groom rents his tux.

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.

It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.

It's good to be successful but it's great to be significant

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

For victory in life, we've got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

To my wife 'I told you I was sick'.

If you don't demand that your people maintain. High performances to remain on your team, Why should they be proud of the association?

Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think

Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.

You might not be able to outthink, outmarket or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.

The price of LEADERSHIP is RESPONSIBILITY ... and part of that responsibility is to STAY POSITIVE whether you feel like it or not.

Only the unprepared are overcome by pressure

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

In this world you're either growing or you're dying so get in motion and grow.

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.

Momentum is whatever your attitude determines it to be.

So what if someone wrote your obituary ... that doesn't mean you are obligated to die.

Don't ever ask a player to do something he doesn't have the ability to do. He'll just question your ability as a coach, not his as an athlete.

First we become the best, then we'll become first.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

I'm so old, I don't buy green bananas any more.

I believe - we all pay taxes. I'm happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That's going to bother you.

It's the extra effort after you have done your best that creates victory.

What's Important Now (?)

You live up - or down - to your expectations.

Remember that adversity presents us with numerous possibilities for success, if we are just willing to see them.

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

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.

The problem is, that it's easy to adopt the attitude of losers.

You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

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

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It's either growing or it's dying. No matter if it's a tree or a human being.

Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time.

Do right. Do your best.

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

If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.

It's a better view if you're standing up than if you're laying down.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

Adversity is another way to measure
the greatness of individuals. I never had
a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

Football coaches don't have real problems.

The only people who aren't going to be criticized are those who do absolutely nothing

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

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life.

It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them.

I don't play well enough to be allowed to throw my clubs.

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

Everybody needs four things in life: Something to do, someone to love, someone to believe in and something to hope for.

You build a successful life a day at a time.

I asked you to pack your headgear and shoulder pads, but more importantly your defense and your kicking game, because that's what wins game like this.

Happiness is nothing more than having a poor memory.

If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

When all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
[as quoted by Alfred E Neuman]

Never tell your problems to any1 ... 20% donot care and 80% are glad to have them ...

We aren't where we want to be; we aren't where we ought to be; but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be.

Actually, all I ever wanted to be was the best in my field.

We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.

I look like I have beriberi and scurvy.

I give opinions, not advice.

Everything ends badly, otherwise it would not end.

When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.

When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.

The answer is surprisingly simple. Just do right. Live an honorable life.

Don't run if you can walk. Don't walk if you can stand. Don't stand if you can sit. Don't sit if you can lie down.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

I think that we have opportunities all around us - sometimes we just don't recognize them.

We will use some kind of option and we will throw the football. I hope it will be at our people.

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

What's important now? - To evaluate the past, focus on the future, and tell you what you have to do in the present

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 don't drink water, haven't drank water in 40 years.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me.

Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it's your turn.

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

All you need is something to say, and a burning desire to say it ... it doesn't matter where your hands are.

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.

I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you are doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking.

No, but you can see it from here.