Top 1200 Notre Dame Football Quotes & Sayings

I just wanted to be a part of Notre Dame. The school and I have a great relationship.

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.

When I was growing up we didn't have cable. All that came on Saturday morning was Notre Dame football, and I was there every time to watch it.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

I graduated from Notre Dame.

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.

My kids grew up here. My son and daughter both went to Notre Dame.

There is no question that Notre Dame has the best, biggest and finest name in college football.

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.

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

Notre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California.

The only reason I wanted to go to college was so I could go to Notre Dame, and so after I graduate from Notre Dame I could go to heaven.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

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?

I'm an old man, and all my life I've said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it's a national school.

You see, my movie isn't about football, or about Notre Dame. It's about hope, about the human spirit.

One thing about Notre Dame, it's like a service academy in a lot of ways. There is a closeness.

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

I'm a Detroit fan in everything pro and I'm a Notre Dame fan in college.

Notre Dame and Sydney - that was nothing. Notre Dame doesn't have a police station; it is not 1,000 or so feet high. It was a public structure, very easy to access. And Sydney Harbour Bridge was half-and-half: a bridge, in the middle of the night. The World Trade Center was the end of the world. Electronic devices, police dogs.

Notre Dame was the first school to offer me basketball-wise.

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!

My dream was to play football at Notre Dame more than anything.

I remember when I drove into Notre Dame, getting ready for the first day of work. I had an electrical charge go up my back because I realized all of a sudden that I was responsible for the traditions that the Knute Rocknes and the Frank Leahys had set, and what Notre Dame stood for.

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

Three coaches at Notre Dame made a big difference in my life, not that I played any football when I attended Notre Dame. But Frank Leahy, Ara Parseghian, and Lou Holtz - they all made a difference to me, and I respected them for their attitudes about life and how they handled loss.

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

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.

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.

I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care.

After Notre Dame, what is there?

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

My first walk illegally at 20 years old was between the towers of Notre Dame.

I came to Notre Dame to renew the winning tradition.

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

The two books I've re-read more than any others are Guenter Grass's 'The Tin Drum' and Victor Hugo's 'Notre-Dame de Paris'.

Probably one of the most surreal moments of my career was acting in front of Notre Dame with a mime.

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

We were able to change the mold of the regular season for Notre Dame basketball, so we thought, 'Why can't we do it in the postseason?'

The most difficult problem about coaching at Notre Dame is losing early.

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

When I was 16 and on a tour of Europe, I fell in love with Le Corbusier's Notre Dame du Haut chapel in Ronchamp, France. I'd quite like to live in it.

Beauty is not generic, bland, and clinical. It isn't all things to all people. The Cathedral of Notre Dame in its endlessly intricate detail was beautiful. Modern office buildings are not.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Having studied at the Sorbonne, I spent my 21st birthday in Paris and celebrated with one of my professors in a cafe outside of Notre Dame.

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.

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.

The best way I could describe it at Notre Dame was that I was accepted as a member of the family.

At Notre Dame, even my statistics teacher wanted me to win.

My first project was 'Hunchback of Notre Dame'. I co-produced that.

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

To my father, Notre Dame represented the underdogs of the world, the Italians, and the Polish people. I told him that one day I would play football for Notre Dame and worked hard to make that dream come true.

I had grown up during a time when Notre Dame football was held in the highest esteem. I listened to all of the games on the radio.

Notre Dame was my dream school growing up. But in recruiting, they had some other plans, what position they wanted me to play.

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.

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