Rudy (1993)
Sean Astin: Daniel E. 'Rudy' Ruettiger
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Quotes
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Father Cavanaugh : [in church] Taking your appeal to a higher authority?
Rudy : I'm desperate. If I don't get in next semester, it's over. Notre Dame doesn't accept senior transfers.
Father Cavanaugh : Well, you've done a hell of a job kid, chasing down your dream.
Rudy : Who cares what kind of job I did if it doesn't produce results? It doesn't mean anything.
Father Cavanaugh : I think you'll find that it will.
Rudy : Maybe I haven't prayed enough.
Father Cavanaugh : I don't think that's the problem. Praying is something we do in our time, the answers come in God's time.
Rudy : If I've done everything I possibly can, can you help me?
Father Cavanaugh : Son, in thirty-five years of religious study, I've come up with only two hard, incontrovertible facts; there is a God, and, I'm not Him.
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Rudy : 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 goalline. This is a team they say is... is good, well I think we're better than them. They can't lick us, so what do you say men?
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Rudy : Coach I just wanted to thank you for letting be a part of this football program this year.
Ara Parseghian : Rudy, I never I thought I'd be saying this but it's been an honor.
Rudy : But I've come to realize that God made some people out to be football players and that I'm not one of them.
Ara Parseghian : I wish God would put your heart in some of my players bodies.
Rudy : [laughs] Yea, I have this wish to let my father watch one of his sons play football for the Irish and I was wondering if I could possibly dress for one game next season?
Ara Parseghian : Rudy the NCAA is really strict with this 60 player rule, and in some positions we only have one backup and you know that every year we are competing for the national championship. Is this wish just for your father?
Rudy : No its for everyone who told me that being a Norte Dame Football player would be impossible. My brothers, the guys I work with at the mill they can't come to practice and see that I am a part of this team.
Ara Parseghian : [sighs] OK.
Rudy : OK?
Ara Parseghian : You deserve it. You will dress for one game next season.
Rudy : [can barely hold in his excitement] Thank You Coach!
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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 hardly have a spec of athletic ability 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 your 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?
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Steele : Rudy,are you ready for this, champ?
Rudy : I've been ready for this my whole life!
Steele : Then you take us out on the field.
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Rudy : Who cares how much effort I put in, if it doesnt produce any results.
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Mateus : Hey man, I just want to say sorry about what I said at practice.
Rudy : Don't be sorry.
Mateus : Do you understand that if you don't cool it out there you're going to get yourself killed?
Rudy : If I cool it out there, then I won't be helping you guys win next week's game. Got it?
Mateus : Yeah, I got it.
Jamie O'Hara : He's just a showboat, man. That's all he's about.
Steele : Relax, Jamie, he's just doing his job.
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Rudy : Mary, Mary quite contrary. What makes your garden grow?
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Rudy : You're the only one who ever took me seriously, Pete.
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[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...
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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!
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Rudy : [When he sees Mary as he is coming off the field] Don't I know you?
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Rudy : This entire year's been a waste! I've just blown another year of eligibility!
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Daniel E. 'Rudy' Ruettiger : Have I done all I can?
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Daniel E. 'Rudy' Ruettiger : Have I done everything I possibly can?
