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One thing about Notre Dame, it's like a service academy in a lot of ways. There is a closeness.

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Like, Notre Dame, One Thing, Closeness

When you set these high expectations and goals, and they are demolished so early in the season, that has an effect on the psyche. It wears you down.

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Down, Set, Wears, Psyche

The harder you work, the less mistakes you make. The fewer mistakes you make, the better your chances of winning.

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Work, Winning, Better, Chances

The 1973 team is real special. I had never coached against Bear Bryant. Alabama had never played Notre Dame. It was North against South; the Catholics against the Baptists; both teams were undefeated, and everything was on the line.

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Against, Coached, South, Undefeated

If you can hang in games by staying close defensively, then good things can happen.

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Happen, Hang, Staying, Defensively

You learn early in athletics that you'll have ups and downs.

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Ups And Downs, Learn, Downs, Ups

It's not true that I never left South Bend to recruit a player. It is true that I didn't leave very often.

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Often, Very, South, Recruit

I've missed the association with players and coaches but haven't missed the recruiting and the travel.

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Missed, Coaches, Players, Recruiting

External pressure I never worried about.

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Pressure, Never, About, External

I was a 52-year-old coach. But people don't realize I had 25 years as a head coach. Most coaches my age only had a few years as head coach. I had six years at Miami of Ohio, eight years at Northwestern, 11 at Notre Dame.

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Years, Ohio, Had, Northwestern

I coached at Northwestern for eight years, where the admission requirements were high.

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High, Requirements, Coached, Northwestern

I remember virtually everything about every loss. And the wins are hardly memorable.

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Remember, Loss, Wins, Hardly

I'd go to clinics and hear coaches say, 'You block with your helmet. You tackle with your helmet.' I'd say, 'No way! You block with your shoulder. It's a lot stronger blow, and you don't risk nearly as much. Why be stupid?'

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Stupid, Clinics, Nearly, Blow

I came to Notre Dame to renew the winning tradition.

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Winning, Notre Dame, Came, Renew

I've been blessed in many ways, but none of the heights from football can ever compare to the depths you go through when you lose a child.

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Through, Been, Compare, Depths

Whether you like it or not, you're a national figure after five games at Notre Dame.

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Like, Notre Dame, Figure, Dame

I had grown up during a time when Notre Dame football was held in the highest esteem. I listened to all of the games on the radio.

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Esteem, Notre Dame, Held, Dame

The most difficult problem about coaching at Notre Dame is losing early.

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Problem, Notre Dame, Most, Dame

The best way I could describe it at Notre Dame was that I was accepted as a member of the family.

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Could, Notre Dame, Best Way, Dame

After Notre Dame, what is there?

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Notre Dame, After, Dame

My kids grew up here. My son and daughter both went to Notre Dame.

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Son, Here, Notre Dame, Dame

That's one thing: When I left Notre Dame, when I left every school, what I'm the proudest of is we never compromised the rules, never were on probation, never had any major problems of any kind.

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Kind, Notre Dame, One Thing, Dame

I remember when I drove into Notre Dame, getting ready for the first day of work. I had an electrical charge go up my back because I realized all of a sudden that I was responsible for the traditions that the Knute Rocknes and the Frank Leahys had set, and what Notre Dame stood for.

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I Remember, Back, Frank, Dame

I can't think of anything that's hit me harder in my life than when I learned that three of our youngest grandchildren were diagnosed with Niemann-Pick C.

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My Life, Think, Learned, Diagnosed

Success in football is relative. If you take a job at a school that finished with a 1-9 record the year before, you're considered a good coach if you finish 5-5 in your first season. But what happens if you start with 8-2 or 9-1?

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Year, Before, Considered, Season

The burdens of being a head coach are different from being an assistant. If I had been an assistant coach for awhile, then become a head coach, I probably would have lasted longer.

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Been, Assistant, Head Coach, Burdens

To me, going for a tie means kicking the extra point for a tie instead of going for a two-point conversion to win.

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Tie, Kicking, Means, Extra

It's a terrific honor. To be associated with the number of people who represent the Cradle of Coaches, it's sort of unreal in a sense.

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Honor, Sense, Cradle, Represent

When I make a fist, it's strong, and you can't tear it apart. As long as there's unity, there's strength.

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Strength, Strong, Fist, Apart

You're going to have disappointments. But how you handle those disappointments is the important thing for you and everybody that's around you. That's what I found from being not only a player but also a coach.

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Handle, Going, Everybody, Disappointments

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