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… — Theodore Hesburgh Copy Share Image
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… — Theodore Hesburgh Copy Share Image
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
