There is no academic virtue in playing mediocre football and no academic vice in winning a game that by all odds one should lose...There has indeed been a surrender at Notre Dame, but it is a surrender to excellence on… — Theodore Hesburgh Copy Share Image
My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make… — Theodore Hesburgh Copy Share Image
There is no conflict between science and theology, except where there is bad science or bad theology. — Theodore Hesburgh Copy Share Image
My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are cheap; you make them because they're right. — Theodore Hesburgh Copy Share Image
Bill Walton, UH Volleyball coach, after his player kept looking at him on the bench every time the ball hit the floor...Next time you look at me I'll put you on the bench where you can see me better. My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap;… — Theodore Hesburgh Copy Share
A decade after an average athlete graduates, everyone will have forgotten when and where he played. But every time he speaks, everyone will know… — Theodore Hesburgh Copy Share Image
Once He created the Big Bang... He could have envisioned it going in billions of directions as it evolved, including billions of life-forms and billions of kinds of intelligent beings. As a theologian, I would say that the proposed search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is also a search of knowing and understanding God through his works - especially those works… — Theodore Hesburgh Copy Share
Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus. — Theodore Hesburgh Copy Share Image
Faith is not an easy virtue; but, in the broad world of a person's total voyage through time to eternity, faith is not only… — Theodore Hesburgh Copy Share Image
The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together,… — Theodore Hesburgh Copy Share Image
