“Rudy” quotes

(1993)
Movie Rudy
Title Rudy
Year 1993
Director David Anspaugh
Genre Drama, Sport, Biography
Plot – Rudy is an average student and athlete in Joliet, an average Illinois town. For this reason, he gives up college and finds himself a job. However, when his best friend Rudy dies, he decides to change his life. With great efforts, he gets accepted at university and manages to play in the school football team, even if only as a second-string player.
All actors – Sean Astin, Jon Favreau, Ned Beatty, Greta Lind, Scott Benjaminson, Mary Ann Thebus, Charles S. Dutton, Lili Taylor, Christopher Reed, Deborah Wittenberg, Christopher Erwin, Kevin Duda
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  • “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.”
    Robert Prosky - Father Cavanaugh
    [Tag:facts, god, studying]
  • “This is the most beautiful sight these eyes have ever seen!”

    Sean Astin - Daniel E. 'Rudy' Ruettiger
    [Tag:football, sight]
  • Praying is something we do in our time, the answers come in God's time.”
    Robert Prosky - Father Cavanaugh
    [Tag:god, prayer, time]
  • “Having dreams is what makes life tolerable.”

    Christopher Reed - Pete
    [Tag:dreams, life, mottoes]
  • “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.”

    John Beasley - Coach Warren
  • “- Daniel E. 'Rudy' Ruettiger: 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.”

    Sean Astin - Daniel E. 'Rudy' Ruettiger
    Charles S. Dutton - Fortune
    [Tag:dreams, football]
  • “- Father Cavanaugh: Well, you've done a hell of a job kid, chasing down your dream.
    - Daniel E. 'Rudy' Ruettiger: Who cares what kind of job I did if it doesn't produce results? It doesn't mean anything.”

    Robert Prosky - Father Cavanaugh
    Sean Astin - Daniel E. 'Rudy' Ruettiger
  • “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.”

    Charles S. Dutton - Fortune
  • “In this life, you don't have to prove nothin' to nobody but yourself.”
    Charles S. Dutton - Fortune
    [Tag:life, self-love]
  • - D-Bob: Remember Elza? She's my girl now. We're engaged. Ain't that goddamn something?
    - Elza: Dennis!
    - D-Bob: Oh yeah, I ain't allowed to say "goddamn" no more.

    Jon Favreau - D-Bob
    Lauren Katz - Elza
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