Ara Parseghian quotes

A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.
- Ara Parseghian

Getting to the top of the mountain is a heck of a lot easier than staying there.
- Ara Parseghian

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

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

I don’t make hasty, impulsive decisions.
- Ara Parseghian

I came to Notre Dame to renew the winning tradition.
- Ara Parseghian

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

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.
- Ara Parseghian

I don’t give a damn what anybody says. I don’t think at 70 and 75 that you can be as productive and efficient as you were when you were 40 or 50.”― Ara Parseghian
- Ara Parseghian

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

One of the reasons I never went into pro football was because I wanted my kids to grow up around an academic environment. And that’s exactly what we did.
- Ara Parseghian

I became a head football coach when I was 27 years old at Miami of Ohio.
- Ara Parseghian

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

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.
- Ara Parseghian

Money talks; there’s no question about it.
- Ara Parseghian

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.
- Ara Parseghian

I say college football began with Rockne.
- Ara Parseghian

That’s the unpredictable part, and that’s what worries every coach: Protect the football. That’s why, when you go into a ballgame, you may be favored, but there’s no guarantee you’re going to win it.
- Ara Parseghian

I’ve missed the association with players and coaches but haven’t missed the recruiting and the travel.
- Ara Parseghian

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.
- Ara Parseghian

I learned long ago not to tear into anyone for a mistake.
- Ara Parseghian