[quoting Knute Rockne] We're gonna go inside, we're gonna go outside, inside and outside. We're gonna get 'em on the run boys and once we get 'em on the run we're gonna keep 'em on the run. And then we're gonna go go go go go go and we're not gonna stop til we get across that goal line! This is a team they say is...good; well I think we're better than them. They can't lick us. So what do you say men? [mimicking the team] Yeah

[reading his Notre Dame admissions letter on his final try] Dear Mr. Ruettiger...College of Arts and Letters has been approved...[looking up, crying] Oh thank God.

Fortune: You're five feet nothin'. 100 and nothin'. And you got hardly a speck of athletic ability. And you hung in with the best college football team in the land for two years. And you're also gonna walk outta here with a degree from the University of Notre Dame. In this lifetime, you don't have to prove nothin' to nobody except yourself. And after what you've gone through, if you haven't done that by now, it ain't gonna never happen. Now go on back.

Father Cavanaugh: Son, in 35 years of religious study, I have only come up with two hard, incontrovertible facts: there is a God, and...I am not Him.

Pete: Having dreams is what makes life tolerable.

When people say dreams don't come true, tell them about Rudy.

Sometimes a winner is a dreamer who just won't quit.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, It's the size of the fight in the dog....