Notre Dame Quotes - Page 2

• 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

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

  Dan Devine

  Dames, Next, Notre Dame Football

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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 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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• Those who know Notre Dame, no explanation’s necessary. Those who don’t, no explanation will suffice.

  Lou Holtz

  Dames, Explanation, Knows

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• Notre Dame had a ... sorta... statistical defense.

  Bryan Fischer

  Dames, Defense

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• There is no academic virtue in playing mediocre football and no academic vice in winning a game that by all odds one should lose...There has indeed been a surrender at Notre Dame, but it is a surrender to excellence on all fronts, and in this we hope to rise above ourselves with the help of God.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Football, Winning, Games

  "The Facts Of The Matter". Sports Illustrated, January 19, 1959.

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• When you look at the dominance of Notre Dame, the love of Mary in almost every European country, psychologically, had to come from this recognition of the feminine mediating divine love. And for many people in history, it was clearly the preferred way because women raised most people, not men, so their first experience of unconditional love, of touch, of caring, of nurturing very often came from a woman - that got easily transferred to Mary.

  Richard Rohr

  Country, Caring, Unconditional Love

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• I've kicked at Notre Dame the past four years, I've been in frigid cold weather, snow. I've kicked at Yankee Stadium in December, so whatever is thrown at me I'm able to do.

  Kyle Brindza

  Past, Yankees, Years

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• I noticed the drama majors on campus when I was at Notre Dame. They just seemed to be freer spirits than the rest of us. There was joy in their work; they were the only ones studying something whose work made them happy. I envied that.

  Catherine Hicks

  Drama, Joy, Dames

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• Whether you like it or not, you're a national figure after five games at Notre Dame.

  Ara Parseghian

  Games, Nfl, Dames

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• I do not believe there is an atheist in the world who would bulldoze Mecca-or Chartres, York Minster or Notre Dame, the Shwe Dagon, the temples of Kyoto or, of course, the Buddhas of Bamiyan.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Believe, Kyoto

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• 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.

  Lou Holtz

  Desire, Dames, Records

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• To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. "Why was I not made of stone like thee?

  Victor Hugo

  Dames, Stones, Gargoyles

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• Hamilton had a complaint. "Why did you have to tell the cops I'm your boyfriend? That's gross, Amy. We're related!" Amy was disgusted. "We had a common ancestor, like, five hundred years ago. Besides, if they think we're together, we only have to come up with one story, and I can do all the talking." "Hey, I got an early acceptance to Notre Dame," Hamilton said defensively. "I can talk." "Of course you can," Amy soothed. "It's what you say that might get us into trouble.

  Gordon Korman

  Acceptance, Thinking, Talking

  Gordon Korman (2011). “The Medusa Plot”, p.83, Scholastic Inc.

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• A few years ago I met an old professor at the University of Notre Dame. Looking back on his long life of teaching, he said with a funny wrinkle in his eyes: I have always been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I slowly discovered that my interruptions were my work.

  Henri Nouwen

  Teaching, Eye, Wrinkles

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• I met my wife on Spring break when I was in college. I was at the University of Notre Dame. She was at the University of New Hampshire. I bumped into her in Florida and told her the next day that I was going to marry her and 20 or something years later here we are.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Spring, College, Next Day

  Source: collider.com

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• Seldom do we experience the charisma and character of a dynamic personality such as Lou Holtz, the very successful former football coach of Notre Dame. Lou has left his distinctive mark of success everywhere he has coached. Winning Every Day is not just a catchy phrase, but with Coach Holtz, a way of life.

  Carl Pohlad

  Football, Character, Successful

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• Perhaps the dumbest of these story lines is that [Pope] Francis has re-opened conversation and debate in a Church that had been closed and claustrophobic for 35 years under John Paul II and Benedict XVI. I defy anyone who, over the last 35 years, has spent time on the campuses of Notre Dame or Georgetown, or who has read the National Catholic Reporter, or who has gone to a meeting of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, to make that claim without experiencing a twinge of conscience that says, "I should wash my mouth out with soap."

  George Weigel

  Religious, Years, Catholic

  Source: eppc.org

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• Something big, ... is about to happen at Notre Dame.

  John Grant

  Dames, Bigs, Happens

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• I've been coming to Notre Dame since 1957. This place, this campus, is the closest thing there is to perfection.

  John Grant

  Perfection, Dames, Campus

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• My solo travels in Paris have brought many perfect hours of being alone but not a moment of loneliness. People who depend on other people are often in hiding from themselves. Two and a quarter million people live in the City of Light: you will see many of them and you will pass them in the street, but when you see Notre Dame after dark and walk home and perhaps stop to have a drink in the Marais, you can feel that the only thing that is missing from your experience is the common dependence on someone to distract your attention.  You are living without it: you are on vacation.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Loneliness, Home, Dark

  "Party of one" by Andrew O'Hagan, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. May 09, 2013.

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• As good as we were, we didn’t win a National Championship until 1993, mainly because we kept losing to Miami on missed kicks. I used to get mad because nobody else would play Miami. Notre Dame would play them, then drop them. Florida dropped them. Penn State dropped them. We would play Miami and lose by one point on a missed field goal, and it would knock us out of the National Championship. I didn’t want to play them, either, but I had to play them. That’s why I said, 'When I die, They’ll say, ‘At least he played Miami.'

  Bobby Bowden

  Winning, Florida, Play

  "The case for FSU's dynasty" by Mark Schlabach, www.espn.com. December 25, 2012.

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• Ron Powlus will win the Heisman two times and be the greatest quarterback in the history of Notre Dame.

  Beano Cook

  Winning, Two, Dames

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