Quotes About Notre Dame Football

#1. 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

#2. Only after giving up 'the truth' can we learn to speak our truth.

Terrence Real

#3. There is that in the Notre Dame fan which makes him intolerable to others, namely, his unassailable confidence that in a well-ordered universe Notre Dame is meant to win all of its games.

Ralph McInerny

#4. I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very ... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

#5. 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

#6. Genius is childhood recaptured.

Jean Baudrillard

#7. Mental health has commonly been called conscience, instinct, wisdom, common sense, or the inner voice. We

Richard Carlson

#8. Education is a lifelong journey whose destination expands as you travel.

Jim Stovall

#9. the cottage lights

R.J. Harlick

#10. 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

#11. 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 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

#12. The challenge is not to be perfect ... it's to be whole

Jane Fonda

#13. You have to be equal at both - great at football and great at dedicating yourself to the academics at Notre Dame. It's hard. There are no rooty-toot classes for athletes in South Bend.

Justin Tuck

#14. Hades cracked his knuckles on each hand, and the noise was like gunpowder caps exploding in the silence. "First dish duty," he mumbled to himself, "now possessed cowboys. This just isn't my night.

Josh Strnad

#15. Children are perfectly happy to sit next to spiders; it is only grown-ups who are frightened away.

Craig Brown

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#17. When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.

Linji Yixuan

#18. I will never, and I mean fucking never regret choosing you. Nothing is more important than you, Eva Brooks. Nothing.

Abbi Glines