You're 5-foot nothin', 100-and-nothin', and you have nearly a speck of athletic ability. And
you hung in there with the best college football team in the land for 2 years. And you're gonna walk outta here with a
degree from the University of Notre Dame. In this life, you don't have to prove nothin' to nobody but yourself. -
RUDY 1993
"You find out life's this game of inches, so is football. Because in either game -- life or football
-- the margin for error is so small. I mean, one half a step too late or too early and you don't quite make it. One half
second too slow, too fast and you don't quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. They're in every
break of the game, every minute, every second. On this team, we fight for that inch. On this team, we tear ourselves and everyone
else around us to pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch. Because we know when add up all those
inches, that's gonna make the f------ difference between winning and losing! Between living and dying!" - Any Given Sunday 1999
I was in the room here one day... watchin' the Mexican channel on TV. I don't know nothin'
about Pele. I'm watchin' what this guy can do with a ball and his feet. Next thing I know, he jumps in the air and
flips into a somersault and kicks the ball in - upside down and backwards... the goddamn goalie never knew what the fuck hit
him. Pele gets excited and he rips off his jersey and starts running around the stadium waving it around his head. Everybody's
screaming in Spanish. I'm here, sitting alone in my room, and I start crying. That's right, I start crying.
Because another human being, a species that I happen to belong to, could kick a ball, and lift himself, and the rest of us
sad-assed human beings, up to a better place to be, if only for a minute... let me tell ya, kid - it was pretty goddamned
glorious. It ain't the six minutes... it's what happens in that six minutes. - Vision Quest 1985
"Sometimes when you win, you really lose, sometimes
when you lose, you really win, and sometimes when you win or lose, you actually tie, and sometimes when you tie, you actually
win or lose" - White Men Can't Jump 1992