Ara Parseghian Quotes
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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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The most difficult problem about coaching at Notre Dame is losing early.
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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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I say college football began with Rockne.
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If you can hang in games by staying close defensively, then good things can happen.
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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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The harder you work, the less mistakes you make. The fewer mistakes you make, the better your chances of winning.
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I came to Notre Dame to renew the winning tradition.
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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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Money talks; there's no question about it.
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My kids grew up here. My son and daughter both went to Notre Dame.
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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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There is nothing more painful than watching a child with a terminal disease.
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I remember virtually everything about every loss. And the wins are hardly memorable.
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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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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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You get different philosophies in coaching, usually depending on what position the coach himself played.
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I became a head football coach when I was 27 years old at Miami of Ohio.
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You learn early in athletics that you'll have ups and downs.
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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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Getting to the top of the mountain is a heck of a lot easier than staying there.
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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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I don't make hasty, impulsive decisions.
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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.