Knute Rockne Quotes
"One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach."
- Knute Rockne
(Related: Soul, Coach, Loss)
"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
(Related: Forget, Guests, Play, Road)
"Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices."
- Knute Rockne
(Related: Men, Thinking)
"It's my show."
- Knute Rockne
"If we're a hit, let 'em say anything they want."
- Knute Rockne
(Related: Want)
"If I flop, let 'em pan me."
- Knute Rockne
"I've found that prayers work best when you have big players."
- Knute Rockne
(Related: Work)
"I'm getting sick and tired of doing anything half-way."
- 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
(Related: Men, Football, Talking)
"One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it."
- Knute Rockne
(Related: Man, Teaching)
"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."
- Knute Rockne
(Related: Life, Success, Football, Man, Years)
"Let's win one for the Gipper."
- Knute Rockne
"Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third."
- Knute Rockne
(Related: First)
"Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points."
- Knute Rockne
"At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrased in front of our friends."
- Knute Rockne
(Related: Home, Idea, Being, Friends)
"A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players."
- Knute Rockne
(Related: Coach, Responsibility, Sense)
"Generalities don't count and won't help you in football."
- Knute Rockne
(Related: Football, Help)
"We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains."
- Knute Rockne
(Related: Genius, Infinite)
"It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it."
- 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
"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
(Related: Enemy, Fool, Now)
"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
(Related: Enthusiasm, Winning, Losing, Public, Results)
"Win or lose, do it fairly."
- Knute Rockne
"Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now."
- Knute Rockne
(Related: Positive, Victory, Leading, Now, Play)
"We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is - don't lose."
- Knute Rockne
(Related: Winning)
"There is no need for me continuing unless I'm able to improve."
- 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
(Related: Work, Coach, Play)
"The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception."
- Knute Rockne
(Related: Deception, Execution, Football)
"Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure."
- Knute Rockne
(Related: Failure)
"When you were riding on the crest of a wave, youwere most likely to be missing out on something."
- Knute Rockne