- [explaining why he elected to run out the clock with the score tied 10-10 in the "Game of the Century" against Michigan State on November 19, 1966] We'd fought hard to come back and tie it up. After all that, I didn't want to risk giving it to them cheap. They get reckless and it could cost them the game. I wasn't going to do a jackass thing like that at this point.
- [asked if he would ever seek another coaching job at the collegiate level] After Notre Dame, what is there?
- There ought to be a rule for penalizing officials, too.
- That's a big break for us! [as color analyst for ABC Sports during the 1976 Notre Dame-Pittsburgh game, to which Keith Jackson replied, "It's not 'us' anymore, Ara."]
- [on how to pronounce his last name] It's "par" as in golf, "segh" as in Seagram's and "ian" as in the Japanese yen. Think of a drunk Japanese golfer.
- [on his 1964 Notre Dame squad] I prefer to think of our record as 9 3/4-1/4, not 9-1.
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