The movie Rudy is based on the true story of Daniel “Rudy” Ruettiger whose dream was to play for Notre Dame. Everyone, including his family, friends, and even clergy told him that he’d never do it.
Rudy was small and didn’t have the physical body for a premier football program like Notre Dame. None of his older siblings had gone to college. He had been told that he wasn’t smart enough for college and that he should go to a technical school instead. Yet he overcame obstacles to play his senior year for 27 seconds for Notre Dame. He was carried off the field on the shoulders of his team mates. Since 1975 no other player has been carried off like this at Notre Dame.
One of the more memorable quotes comes from one of Rudy’s mentors, Fortune. He tells Rudy this as he is about ready to quit, after he has made the team, but may be unable to dress for his last game.

You’re 5 foot nothin’, 100 and nothin’, and you have nearly a speck of athletic ability. And you hung in there with the best college football team 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.

Sometimes the toughest person to convince is yourself. We tend to put alot of high expectations on ourselves. We get anxious when we don’t meet those expectations in our own minds. Sometimes its best to remember that we don’t have to be perfect in order to accomplish our goals.
In the movie Rudy meet another football player who is disastisfied that he is playing for Notre Dame. He says he would have preferred to play for other teams, but he chose Notre Dame because his father was an All-American there. This player doesn’t even try anymore. He says the coach keeps him on because he is a legacy.
The moral of the above exchange is some people remain ungrateful for their gifts. Rudy would have done anything to play for Notre Dame, yet this other player could care less. Eventually this player says that it was Rudy who convinced him to stick it out his senior year.