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! — Bear Bryant
College football is LSU's Tiger Stadium at night. — Rick Reilly
Best scene in college football is at LSU on a Saturday night. — Beano Cook
The height of human desire is what wins, whether it’s on Normandy Beach or in Ohio Stadium. — Woody Hayes
The Pantheon was the first church I'd ever seen that had an open view to God — Bran Ferren
My alma mater was books, a good library. — Malcolm X
May the Heart of Jesus Christ be our school! Let us make our abode there. Let us study its movements and attempt to conform ours to them. Yes, O Divine Jesus, I want to live there. — Claude de la Colombiere
I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite. — Verne Troyer
Those who stay will be champions — Bo Schembechler
Love our Lady. And she will obtain abundant grace to help you conquer in your daily struggle. — Josemaria Escriva
[My catholic education] sticked with me. It caused the rage I had to make 'Pink Flamingos.' — John Waters
I wouldn't want to play LSU right now even if I were the Indianapolis Colts. — Lee Corso
Our high school had a really good improv group. — James Murray
There are no turnarounds at Michigan. This is greatness. Long tradition of it. — Jim Harbaugh
Devotion, like fire, goeth upward. — Zoroaster
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Notre Dame Football Quotes
The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb. — Knute Rockne
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
There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers. — John Steinbeck
The morning we left South Bend, every student and professor was out of bed long before breakfast and marched downtown accompanying the team to the railroad station. It was the first time I'd seen anything like this mass hysteria generated on the Notre Dame campus over a football game. — Knute Rockne
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
Always remember..... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David. — Ralph Jordan
Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died. — Frank Leahy
I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades. — Duffy Daugherty
It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it. — Knute Rockne
Winning means everything...You show me a good loser and I'll show a loser. — George Steinbrenner
I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care. You’ve got to make a sincere attempt to have the right goals to begin with, then go after them with appropriate effort, and remember that you can’t really achieve anything great without the help of others. — Lou Holtz
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
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
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
Those who know Notre Dame, no explanation’s necessary. Those who don’t, no explanation will suffice. — Lou Holtz
Whether you like it or not, you're a national figure after five games at Notre Dame. — Ara Parseghian
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
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
The owl goes not into the nest of the lark. — Victor Hugo
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, who said to his tailor Irving, Forget the slacks - please work on the blazer! Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons
I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame. — Dan Devine
Ron Powlus will win the Heisman two times and be the greatest quarterback in the history of Notre Dame. — Beano Cook
For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown. — Victor Hugo
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
In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame. — Phil Donahue
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
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
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
by making himself a priest made himself a demon. — Victor Hugo
At home I have a copy of the April 21, 1986, issue of 'Sports Illustrated.' I'm on the cover with the blurb, 'Can Lou Do It?' I'd just arrived at Notre Dame, and with spring football underway, I was the focal point of that week's coverage. — Lou Holtz
When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again. — Lou Holtz
You don't go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody. — Lou Holtz
If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who's been successful at another college program, they're going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there. — Lou Holtz
I'm an old man, and all my life I've said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it's a national school. — Lou Holtz
Notre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California. — Lou Holtz
I've followed Notre Dame football since 1946, when I listened on the radio and Johnny Lujack tackled Doc Blanchard in the open field to preserve a 0-0 tie. — Lou Holtz
The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn't allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability. — Lou Holtz
I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for. — Lou Holtz
The University of Notre Dame does not redshirt, and I endorse that policy completely. I am very much in favor of redshirting, but not at Notre Dame. But there's no doubt about it. It puts us at a huge disadvantage. — Lou Holtz
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
No matter what happens, a terror attack in London, a terror hammer attack at Notre Dame in Paris, whatever it is, if you want to understand the left's reaction to it, you need to be able to put yourself in their shoes and find a way to blame Trump for it and then to use the event to get rid of or discredit Trump, because that's what all of this is about. — Rush Limbaugh
I'm a product of a Notre Dame education; those professors taught me a lot about how you separate the city of God from the state. I'm also a reverent follower of the tradition of Thomas Jefferson. My years of public life have simply confirmed the intensity of my belief that what I have learned from Joe Evans and Thomas Jefferson was correct. — Bruce Babbitt
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