Top 206 Notre Dame Quotes & Sayings

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

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

After Notre Dame, what is there?

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

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

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.

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

I graduated from Notre Dame.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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.

God has a plan for everybody's life, so there was obviously a reason why He wanted me to go to Notre Dame. Everything happens for a reason.

I came to Notre Dame to renew the winning tradition.

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

I've always been a huge fan of Charles Lawton's performance in 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame,' so somewhere along the line, I've always wanted to play that character.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

I visited Notre Dame at 11 in the morning and the sun was entering through the south rose window, it was so impressive. This is when architecture can be king and give people sensations, like music.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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?'

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.

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

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!

I have always respected how Bobby Bowden would go out and challenge any opponent, and he produced some legendary games against the University of Miami and 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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'.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

I'm going to be the next head coach at 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 was still rooting for Notre Dame.It's like there's the cultural Catholic experience.

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