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Chasing a stupid dream
causes nothing but you and everyone around you heartache.
Notre Dame is for rich kids,
smart kids,
great athletes.
It's not for us.
Rudy (off screen): I want to go to school at Notre Dame.
[chuckles lightly]
Well, have you applied?
No, my grades have never been very good, even though I try.
But I'll try harder. I'll study 20 hours a day if I have to.
This university, it's not for everybody.
Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to go to school here.
And ever since I was a kid, everyone said it couldn't be done.
My whole life, people have been telling me what I could do and couldn't do.
I've always listened to them, believed in what they said.
I don't want to do that anymore.
Let me tell it to you as clean as I can.
We have 95 players here
so accomplished as athletes in high school
we gave them full scholarships to the best football program in the country.
NCAA regulations allow us to dress just 60 for home games
which means at least 35 scholarship players
are gonna be watching the game from the stands.
So if any of you has any fantasies
about running out of that stadium tunnel with your gold helmet shining in the sun,
you best leave them right here.
Of you 15 dreamers out there, maybe we'll keep one or two.
[marching band playing]
This is the most beautiful sight these eyes have ever seen.
[clapping, chanting]
Rudy?
You ready, champ?
I've been ready for this my whole lifetime.
Then you take us out on the field.
[crowd cheering]
Here they go!
[crowd cheering]
[crowd chanting] -Rudy! -Rudy!
Set. [inaudible]
Set!
Hut!
[crowd cheers]
[triumphant music]
Yeah!
Yeah!
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