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You don't go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

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 was my dream school growing up. But in recruiting, they had some other plans, what position they wanted me to play.

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

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'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.

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.

God has a plan for everybody's life, so there was obviously a reason why He wanted me to go to Notre Dame. Everything happens for a reason.

To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.

My first project was 'Hunchback of Notre Dame'. I co-produced that.