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

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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.

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The best way to save face is not to use the lower half.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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You've got to have great athletes to win, I don't care who the coach is. You can't win without good athletes but you can lose with them. This is where coaching makes the difference.

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

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

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In adversity, there is opportunity. Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity. I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity. Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

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

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

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Those who know Notre Dame, no explanation’s necessary. Those who don’t, no explanation will suffice.

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I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It's good for them.

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My wife doesn't even want to spend 2 hours with me.

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I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.

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

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I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.

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