Knute Rockne Quotes

"Win or lose, do it fairly."

"Let's win one for the Gipper."

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

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

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

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

"Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

Compiled by Thomas George
editor@Wisdom-of-the-Wise.com

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