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.

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.

I collect records. And cats. I don’t have any cats right now. But if I’m taking a walk and I see a cat, I’m happy.

I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ‚em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.

I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.

I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don’t know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.

I’ve got nothing against records – I’ve spent my life making them – but they are a kind of historical blip.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.

John Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

I don’t think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.

It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, ‚What does he do? What does he do?‘ My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.

The only time my records are going to be broken is by my own spawn. I’m going be training that child out the womb.

Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they’ve played on, coaches they’ve played for.

When I signed up for BFC, then-coach Ashley Westwood wanted me to play on the left as an attacking midfielder. I was not sure initially but I believed in his vision. For the first six-seven games, I didn’t really know what I was doing. I was like a headless chicken. But he kept backing me.

Whoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock ‚n roll records to trendy customers.

I’ve written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that’s what’s been fun about looking back.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I’d play ‚em over and over.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

I’ve always been privileged to play for Coach Belichick, who I’ve always said is the best coach in the history of the league.

As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that’s all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.

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.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn’t much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn’t even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.

There’s always gonna be rock n‘ roll bands, there’s always gonna be kids that love rock n‘ roll records, and there will always be rock n‘ roll.

My records are borderline dance records. They’ve got a real electro-rock heart and soul, and the vibe of the sentiment is pop, but there’s a lot of people that were like, ‚This is a dance record.‘

Coaches will say that it’s not important for their team to run more, and they prefer to make games the right way. I want to make games only the right way and run 10 km more.

A lot of the records you buy, there’s nothing you can hold in your hand, it’s all 1’s and 0’s, this digital cloud floating in the ether. but with analog albums, you can hold it in your hand.

Notre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California.

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.

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

Louis van Gaal is one of the most successful managers in the world.

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

All my records and videos were groundbreaking.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don’t know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?

I’m a mentor to anybody who’s interested.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

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

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you’re ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can’t fire you.

I’m an old man, and all my life I’ve said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it’s a national school.

Over the years, all my coaches and my teammates have contributed a lot to shape my career. I can never forget their contribution and help.

I always have confidence, whether I miss four in a row or make four in a row, that the next one’s going in. To a coach, sometimes that might not make sense.

Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don’t sit and drool about it. When I do look at early footage of Talking Heads, I realise I was just a wreck.

No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

When I watch professional football, I love listening to John Madden because I know he knows what he’s talking about. He’s been both down in the trenches and in front of the bench as a coach. He knows the game.

Every album, I make big records. I’m going to always make an anthem. That’s what I do.

At home I have a copy of the April 21, 1986, issue of ‚Sports Illustrated.‘ I’m on the cover with the blurb, ‚Can Lou Do It?‘ I’d just arrived at Notre Dame, and with spring football underway, I was the focal point of that week’s coverage.