Top 47 Rockne Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Rockne

#1. I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.

Lou Holtz

#2. 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

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#3. 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.

Knute Rockne

#4. As writers, we're always trying to connect with the audience on a visceral level. We usually do that through drama, through emotion or through humor.

Rockne S. O'Bannon

#5. Using a certain sort of message can attract people to that message, and that creates power that you can either use responsibly or not.

Rockne S. O'Bannon

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

Knute Rockne

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

Knute Rockne

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

Knute Rockne

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

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

Knute Rockne

#12. The notion of making the television - the very thing that we allow into our living room and our kid's bedroom - something that's potentially dangerous, to me, is just so incredibly delicious that I can't tell you.

Rockne S. O'Bannon

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

Knute Rockne

#14. Win one for the Gipper.

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

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

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

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#18. There was a period of cinema, in the mid-90's, that I was a huge fan of, with Heat and Seven, and the Tarantino era. If I've ever been fanatical, it was about those films.

Rockne S. O'Bannon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#34. 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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#35. 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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#36. 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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#37. When you were riding on the crest of a wave, youwere most likely to be missing out on something.

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#38. 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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