Fortune Quotes in Rudy (1993)

Fortune: You're 5 foot nothin', 100 and nothin', and you have barely a speck of athletic ability. And you hung in there with the best college football players 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. 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.

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?

Fortune: You got your head so far up your ass about that damn football team, you don't get the fact that you just got a year of top quality education! Waste? Quit wasting my time!

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?

[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...