ESPN is a great organization to work for.
You always have to prepare for the obstacles that are going to come. Consequently, when they do come, it doesn’t affect you mentally near as much as when you’re unprepared for them.
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.
My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.
Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.
The best way to save face is not to use the lower half.
I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.
You can pay people to perform, but you can’t pay people to excel.
What’s important now? – To evaluate the past, focus on the future, and tell you what you have to do in the present.
You can’t motivate a group of people or a Team. You have to motivate people individually, and that motivation has to be in an environment in which that person has a goal – something they want to accomplish in their lives.
It’s the extra effort after you have done your best that creates victory.
Momentum is whatever your attitude determines it to be.
We are not going to win because you have a new head coach, any more than you are going to fix a flat tire by changing the driver. We will win the minute all of us get rid of excuses as to why we can’t win and stop wallowing in self-pity.
Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.
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.
It’s good to be successful but it’s great to be significant.
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 freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities. If you want to fail yourself – you can – but you cannot do your own thing if you have responsibilities to team members.
First we become the best, then we’ll become first.
I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.