I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

I never saw any of my dad’s stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

Bobby Knight told me this: ‚There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.‘ In other words a good offense wins.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

Everybody asks if putting is like shooting free throws. It has a very similar kind of mindset. And it’s just you, the ball, and the target.

I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.

Once you have six children, you’re committed.

I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

I played a little basketball. Some football in junior high.

The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.

I love to dance, but my children tell me I shouldn’t. Can’t see why.

Players today moan about the number of games, but when you’re young, you can’t play enough.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still ‚mom-in-chief.‘ My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

I wasn’t going to shy away from getting married when I did and having a baby young and starting a family, even with the job that I chose.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

I do not think that I am a natural born mother… If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It’s enough. I’m enough. My kids are enough.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn’t hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time – I would say eight to 10 cookouts.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

I do understand it’s not easy to run an I-league club. I have been part of many and I know the scene.

When people say ‚marriage‘ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.

The more minutes you play and the more grind and physical play you endure through the course of a season, you have to re-charge and get your body right for the next season. Be in that weight room and conditioning and that kind of deal.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Becoming an inspiration for kids is great. I want to inspire them to do whatever they want to.

If you wished to be loved, love.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

That’s what I do this for, to secure my family’s future. I don’t care about anything else. I’m able to spoil people, and that’s the best thing.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

Football is all about fans.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

I never fall in love.

I love to flirt, and I’ve never met a man I didn’t like.

I imagine I will be less involved in film and be focused more on family and foreign affairs.