Browsing Topic Best Notre Dame Quotes

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

The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.

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

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.

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

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.’

Sure, I’d love to beat Notre Dame, don’t get me wrong. But nothing matters more than beating that cow college on the other side of the state!

Notre Dame had a … sorta… statistical defense.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.

I was still rooting for Notre Dame.It’s like there’s the cultural Catholic experience.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

by making himself a priest made himself a demon.

I went to Notre Dame. I don’t know if that has any relevance, but maybe we all had a little too much philosophy and theology.

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

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.

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, who said to his tailor Irving, Forget the slacks – please work on the blazer! Never got a dinner!