Top 42 Knute Rockne Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#8. 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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#9. If winning isn't everything why bother to keep the score?

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

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#11. 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.

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#12. 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.

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#13. Show me a good and gracious loser and I will show you a failure.

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#14. 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.

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

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

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#17. Let's win one for the Gipper.

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

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#19. Win or lose, do it fairly.

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

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

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

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#23. No star playing, just football.

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

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#25. 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.

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

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

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

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#29. 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.

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

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#31. Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

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

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#33. Win one for the Gipper.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#40. 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.

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

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

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