Rudy Quotes
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    8549
      D-Bob: Are you learning stenography or something? Everything he's mouthing is in the goddamn book.
      Rudy: I gotta make an 'A' in this class.
      D-Bob: Just remember "Sitz im Leben" and it shouldn't be a problem.
      8548
        Pete: Hey, you were a pretty big Notre Dame fan!
        Frank: Yeah, and I used to collect baseball cards too!
        8547
          Fortune: I rode the bench for two years. Thought I wasn't being played because of my color, I got filled up with a lotta attitude. So I quit. Still not a week goes by I don't regret it. And I guarantee a week won't go by in your life you won't regret walking out, letting them get the best of ya. You hear me clear enough?
          8546
            Fortune: Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey what are you doing here don't you have pratice?
            Rudy: Not anymore I quit.
            Fortune: Oh, well since when are you the quitting kind?
            Rudy: I don't know I just don't see the point anymore.
            Fortune: So you didn't make the dress list, there are greater tragies in the world.
            Rudy: I wanted to run out of that Tunnell for my dad to prove to everyone that I worked...
            Fortune: PROVE WHAT?
            Rudy: That I was somebody.
            Fortune: Oh you are so full of crap. Your five foot nothin', a hundred and nothin' and you hung in with the best college football team in the land for two years, and you were also going to walk out of here with a degree from the University of Norte Dame in this life time you don't have to prove nothing to nobody except yourself and after what you gone through if you haven't done that by now, it aint gonna never happen, now go on back.
            Rudy: I'm sorry I never got you to see you'r first game in here.
            Fortune: Hell I've seen too many games in this Stadium.
            Rudy: I thought you said you never saw a game...
            Fortune: I've never seen a game from the stands.
            Rudy: You were a player?
            Fortune: I rode the Bench for two years thought I wasn't being played because of my color I got filled up with a lot of attitude so I quit, still not a week goes by I don't regret it, and I guarantee a week won't go by in your life you won't regret walking out letting them get the best of you. Do you hear me clear enough?
            8545
              Ara Parseghian: What's your problem, O'Hare, what's your problem?
              Jamie O'Hara: Last practice of the season and this asshole thinks it's the Super Bowl!
              Ara Parseghian: You just summed up your entire sorry career here in one sentence! If you had a tenth of the heart of Ruettiger, you'd have made All-American by now! As it is, you just went from third team to the prep team! Get out of here!
              8544
                Coach Warren: [addressing players at the walk-on tryouts] Let me tell it to you as clean as I can. We have 95 players here so accomplished as athletes in high school, we gave them full scholarships to the best football program in the country. NCAA regulations allow us to dress just 60 for home games, which means at least 35 scholarship players are gonna be watching the game from the stands. So if any of you has any fantasies about running out of that stadium tunnel with your gold helmet shining in the sun, you best leave them right here. Of you 15 dreamers out there maybe we'll keep one or two. My job is to basically beat the shit out of you for the next 5 days, and whoever is still standing at the end, maybe we'll use for our scout teams. You'll be running the oppositions plays week in and week out. The greatest value to us is we don't care whether you get hurt. Our first teams are going to pound on you like you're their worst enemies. Like what you hear so far? Any of you wanna run home to momma? Now's your chance. Joe, they're all yours.
                8543
                  D-Bob: [when Rudy first steps onto the field] He's so little!
                  8542
                    Rudy: Who cares how much effort I put in, if it doesnt produce any results.
                    8541
                      [Rudy sneaks into Notre Dame Stadium]
                      Fortune: Hey kid! You're not supposed to be here!
                      Rudy: Hey this place is really somethin else huh? Someday I'm gonna come out of that tunnel and I'm gonna run onto this field
                      Fortune: Well it ain't gonna be this day...
                      Rudy: I'm here to play football for the Irish!
                      Fortune: Coach Parseghian know about it?
                      Rudy: No... not yet.
                      Fortune: Well maybe you best tell him first...
                      8540
                        Steele: I want Rudy to dress in my place Coach. He deserves it.
                        Dan Devine: [laughs] Don't be ridiculous, Georgia Tech is one of the top offense teams in the country.
                        [Steele continues to stand and stare at the Devine]
                        Dan Devine: You are an All-American and our Captain, act like it!
                        Steele: I believe I am.
                        [lays his jersy down on Devine's desk and walks out]
                        8539
                          D-Bob: Who's the wild man now?
                          8538
                            Mateus: [at practice, Rudy remains on the ground after being pummeled on a block by Mateus] Hey, little buddy, you all right?
                            Coach Yonto: Ruettiger, get out!
                            Rudy: [springs up, refusing to be taken out] I can do it, coach!
                            Rudy: [play is run again, but Mateus refuses to block Rudy. Rudy confronts Mateus loudly] What are you doing? I'm playing defense for Purdue!
                            Coach Yonto: Mateus!
                            [grabs his facemask]
                            Coach Yonto: You ain't here to be no nanny in no kindergarten!
                            8537
                              (Rudy sneaks into Notre Dame Stadium)
                              Fortune: Hey kid! You're not supposed to be here!
                              Rudy: Hey this place is really somethin else huh? Someday I'm gonna come out of that tunnel and I'm gonna run onto this field