It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.
A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players.
We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is - don't lose.
The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.
We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.
At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrassed in front of our friends.
One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.
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.
Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.
The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.
I'm getting sick and tired of doing anything half-way.
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.
Never tell 'em how many lettermen you've got coming back. Tell 'em how many you lost.
No star playing, just football.
If the coach insists upon hard play, but clean play, the team will do likewise.
I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say.
When you were riding on the crest of a wave, youwere most likely to be missing out on something.
Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.
If we're a hit, let 'em say anything they want.
You know, I've been attending so many banquets that I know what they're going to serve before I get there.
If I flop, let 'em pan me.
Boards, boards, boards.
