Knute Rockne quotes

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points. (Knute Rockne)
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it. View quote
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Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Let's win one for the Gipper. View quote
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Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up. View quote
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Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third. View quote
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Win or lose, do it fairly. View quote
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We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is - don't lose. View quote
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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)
There is no need for me continuing unless I'm able to improve. View quote
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Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now. View quote
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The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception. View quote
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I've found that prayers work best when you have big players. View quote
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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. View quote
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One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach. View quote
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You know, I've been attending so many banquets that I know what they're going to serve before I get there. View quote
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I'm getting sick and tired of doing anything half-way. View quote
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When you were riding on the crest of a wave, youwere most likely to be missing out on something. View quote
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We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains. (Knute Rockne)
Generalities don't count and won't help you in football. View quote
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If I flop, let 'em pan me. View quote
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Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm. View quote
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A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players. View quote
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Knute Rockne

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Occupation: American Coach
Born: March 4, 1888
Died: March 31, 1931
Quotes count: 32