A biography for Ara Parseghianhasn’t been written yet.
“I have been around football all of my life.”
“I became a head football coach when I was 27 years old at Miami of Ohio.”
“If you can hang in games by staying close defensively, then good things can happen.”
“After Notre Dame, what is there?”
“In my own opinion, psychology in football is far more important than anyone believes, including the coaches.”
“You are going to get knocked down, but you don't lie there. You get up and face the challenge.”
“There is nothing more painful than watching a child with a terminal disease.”
“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.”
“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.”