Knute Rockne Quotes

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

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.

The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

Courage means being afraid to do something, but still doing it.

If winning isn't everything why bother to keep the score?

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.

Leaders are like eagles... they don't flock. You'll find them one at a time.

Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself.

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.

The secret of winning is working more as a team, less as individuals.

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

Yes, I know that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks, too. But we're gonna fool them.

I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.

Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now.

Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

All the world loves a winner and has no time for a loser.

There is no need for me continuing unless I'm able to improve.

Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.

Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.

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.

It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.

I'm getting sick and tired of doing anything half-way.

One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.

Never tell 'em how many lettermen you've got coming back. Tell 'em how many you lost.

A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players.

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.

We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is - don't lose.

Let's win one for the Gipper.

If the coach insists upon hard play, but clean play, the team will do likewise.

No star playing, just football.

You know, I've been attending so many banquets that I know what they're going to serve before I get there.

At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrassed in front of our friends.

Boards, boards, boards.

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.

There is not economy in getting cheap service or equipment. Buy the best and cry only once.

When you were riding on the crest of a wave, youwere most likely to be missing out on something.

Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.

If we're a hit, let 'em say anything they want.

If I flop, let 'em pan me.

Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

Let's win this one for the Gipper.

One loss is good for the soul. Too many losses are not good for the coach.

Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

On the road we're somebody else's guests and we play in a way that they'renot going to forget we visited them.