Top 195 Dame Quotes & Sayings

I am never going to be made a Dame doing Dot.

I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.

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.

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

And there's no way I'm going to do Dame Edna.

I would say a guy I always respect and admire is Dame. I always liked Dame's game. I watch him, just his work ethic.

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

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.

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

Once (says an Author; where I need not say) Two Trav'lers found an Oyster in their way; Both fierce, both hungry; the dispute grew stong; While Scale in Hand Dame Justice pass'd along Before her each with clamour pleads the Laws. Explain'd the matter, and would win the cause, Dame Justice wighing long the doubtful Right Takes, opens, swallows it, before their sight. The cause of strife remov'd so rarely well, "There take" (says Justice), "take ye each a shell. We thrive at Westminster on Fools like you: 'Twas a fat oyster - live in peace - Adieu."

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

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

One who can find lemons sweet and grapes sour is ready for Dame Fortune.

I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame

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

After Notre Dame, what is there?

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

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

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

You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.

A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.

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

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

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 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.

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.

You know, a dame with a rod is like a guy with a knitting needle.

I am a classy dame.

There is nothing like a dame.

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

There is nothin' like a dame.

So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her love.

What good is a beautiful dame with a Rolls-Royce frame, and a Volkswagen brain?

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

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

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

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

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

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

I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie).

One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the dame day as we do ourselves.

O wretched is the dame, to whom the sound, "Your lord will soon return," no phrase brings.

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

As soon as you see 'Dame' in front of someone's name, you get nervous, but Dame Maggie Smith is the most wonderfully gentle woman I have ever met. She never had a bad word to say.

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.

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

I don't see why I should be a dame for just doing what I always wanted to do.

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

I graduated from Notre Dame.

I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame.

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

I think that she's a great dame. I'm crazy for Lucille.

I came to Notre Dame to renew the winning tradition.

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

I am not qualified to be a Dame. To be Dame you have to represent England in a way that I don't.

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.

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

My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.

Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.