Notre Dame Quotes

• Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

  Knute Rockne

  Inspirational, Football, Losing

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• You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Basketball, Football

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• One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

  Knute Rockne

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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  I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.

  Knute Rockne

  Football, Prayer, Player

  "Text of Bush's Notre Dame speech". edition.cnn.com. May 20, 2001.

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• A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

  Vince Lombardi

  Football, Motivational Sports, School

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• Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died.

  Frank Leahy

  Football, College, Practice

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• I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Volleyball, Football

  91 Copy quote

• It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.

  Knute Rockne

  Football, College, Nfl

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• There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers.

  John Steinbeck

  Football, Two, People

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• There are two kinds of people in the world, Notre Dame lovers and Notre Dame haters. And, quite frankly, they're both a pain in the ass.

  Dan Devine

  Football, Pain, College

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• In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.

  Phil Donahue

  Boys, Two, Parent

  Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”

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• The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Numbers, Life And Death, Pro Life

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• An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Funny, Sports, Atheist

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• by making himself a priest made himself a demon.

  Victor Hugo

  Demon, Made, Priests

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.1423, Delphi Classics

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• When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Art, Kings

  Victor Hugo (1948). “Notre-Dame de Paris”

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

  Lou Holtz

  Dames

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• I took a Russian class at Notre Dame. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would fly someday in a Russian spacecraft with two cosmonauts, speaking only Russian.

  Kevin A. Ford

  Dream, Thinking, Class

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• Growing up under the heavy hand of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, it was drummed into me that attending weekly mass was not an option. It was a must to avoid eternal damnation, which was not a prospect filled with many positives. Hell fire was perpetual, and no parole would be offered.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Growing Up, School, Fire

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• Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

  Knute Rockne

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent... and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service.

  Regis Philbin

  Opportunity, Years, Two

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• I don't know what my appeal is. I can see I've got blue eyes and don't look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame but I can't understand the fuss.

  Rutger Hauer

  Eye, Blue, Dames

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

  Dan Devine

  Dames, Next, Notre Dame Football

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• The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.

  Knute Rockne

  Leadership, Football, College

  76 Copy quote

• The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.

  Victor Hugo

  Owl, Larks, Nests

  Victor Hugo (1904). “Notre Dame of Paris”

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• If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.

  Lou Holtz

  Sports, Football, Volleyball

  Twitter post from Aug 24, 2011

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