Knute Rockne Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Knute Rockne
When you were riding on the crest of a wave, youwere most likely to be missing out on something. — Knute Rockne
The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven. — Knute Rockne
I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say. — Knute Rockne
On the road we're somebody else's guests and we play in a way that they're
not going to forget we visited them. — Knute Rockne
The best thing I ever learned in life was that things have to be worked for. A lot of people seem to think there is some sort of magic in making a winning football team. There isn't, but there's plenty of work. — Knute Rockne
Yes, I now that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks too. But we're gonna fool them. — Knute Rockne
Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.
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There is not economy in getting cheap service or equipment. Buy the best and cry only once. — Knute Rockne
You know, I've been attending so many banquets that I know what they're going to serve before I get there. — Knute Rockne
Now I'm going to tell you something I've kept to myself for years. None of you ever knew George Gipp. He was long before your time, but you all know what a tradition he is at Notre Dame. And the last thing he said to me, "Rock," he said, "sometime when the team is up against it and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to go out there with all they've got and win just one for the Gipper. I don't know where I'll be then, Rock," he said, "but I'll know about it and I'll be happy."
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Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself. — Knute Rockne
A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players. — Knute Rockne
It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it. — Knute Rockne
Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now. — Knute Rockne
The morning we left South Bend, every student and professor was out of bed long before breakfast and marched downtown accompanying the team to the railroad station. It was the first time I'd seen anything like this mass hysteria generated on the Notre Dame campus over a football game. — Knute Rockne
Win or lose, do it fairly. — Knute Rockne
Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm. — Knute Rockne
We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is - don't lose. — Knute Rockne
An automobile goes nowhere efficiently unless it has a quick, hot spark to ignite things, to set the cogs of the machine in motion. So I try to make every player on my team feel he's the spark keeping our machine in motion. — Knute Rockne
The secret of winning is working more as a team, less as individuals. — Knute Rockne
I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, "Oh, well, there's another Saturday." The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice. — Knute Rockne
Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure. — Knute Rockne
Never tell 'em how many lettermen you've got coming back. Tell 'em how many you lost. — Knute Rockne
No star playing, just football. — Knute Rockne
If winning isn't everything why bother to keep the score? — Knute Rockne
Show me a good and gracious loser and I will show you a failure. — Knute Rockne
Leaders are like eagles ... they don't flock. You'll find them one at a time. — Knute Rockne
The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb. — Knute Rockne
There is no need for me continuing unless I'm able to improve. — Knute Rockne
The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception. — Knute Rockne
Let's win one for the Gipper. — Knute Rockne
At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrased in front of our friends. — Knute Rockne
Generalities don't count and won't help you in football. — Knute Rockne
Win one for the Gipper. — Knute Rockne
If we're a hit, let 'em say anything they want. — Knute Rockne