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.

If you made me the national commissioner of football, I’d tell you one thing that I would mandate. The second Saturday in September, we’re going to have conference day. Everybody from the SEC plays a Big 12 team. Everybody from the Big Ten is going to play the ACC. Everybody from the Big East is going to play the Pac-10.

I don’t think there’s been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.

I’ve followed Notre Dame football since 1946, when I listened on the radio and Johnny Lujack tackled Doc Blanchard in the open field to preserve a 0-0 tie.

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 truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

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

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

Every video I’m in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It’s not real life.

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.

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