Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.
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. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, "Oh, well, there's another Saturday." The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.
The best thing I ever learned in life was that things have to be worked for. A lot of people seem to think there is some sort of magic in making a winning football team. There isn't, but there's plenty of work.
I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.
Yes, I know that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks, too. But we're gonna fool them.
Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.
Let's win one for the Gipper.
Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.
Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.
The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.
At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrassed in front of our friends.
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.
The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.
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.
No star playing, just football.
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.
Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.
