Knute Rockne famous quotes

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
-- Knute Rockne

#Inspirational #Motivational #Positive

Courage means being afraid to do something, but still doing it.
-- Knute Rockne

#Mean #Champion #Winner

Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself.
-- Knute Rockne

#Sports #Past #Care

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

#Motivational #Teamwork #Play

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.
-- Knute Rockne

#Sports #Strong #Weakness

I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.
-- Knute Rockne

#Football #Prayer #College

Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
-- Knute Rockne

#Inspirational #Loser #Gracious

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

#Soccer #Sports #Football

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

#Soccer #Sports #Football

It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.
-- Knute Rockne

#Football #College #Nfl

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

#Motivational #Sports #Play

Win or lose, do it fairly.
-- Knute Rockne

#Motivational Sports #Winning #Nfl

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

#Motivational #Responsibility #Player

I have to get the most energy out of a man and have discovered that it cannot be done if he hates another man. Hate blocks his energy and he isn't up to par until he eliminates it and develops a friendly feeling...(towards all his teammates.)
-- Knute Rockne

#Motivational #Hate #Block

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.
-- Knute Rockne

#Soccer #Sports #Football

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

#Soccer #Sports #Football

If I flop, let 'em pan me.
-- Knute Rockne

#Sports #Ems

No star playing, just football.
-- Knute Rockne

#Football #Stars

If winning isn't everything why bother to keep the score?
-- Knute Rockne

#Winning #Score #Bother

The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.
-- Knute Rockne

#Leadership #Football #College

Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.
-- Knute Rockne

#Drinking #Alcohol #Firsts

Yes, I know that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks, too. But we're gonna fool them.
-- Knute Rockne

#Football #Strong #Thinking

Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.
-- Knute Rockne

#Soccer #Football #Helping

Boards, boards, boards.
-- Knute Rockne

#Basketball #Boards

One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.
-- Knute Rockne

#Motivational #Sports #Loss

There is no need for me continuing unless I'm able to improve.
-- Knute Rockne

#Motivational #Sports #Nfl

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

#Motivational #Sports #Winning

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

#Missing You #Sports #Riding

Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now.
-- Knute Rockne

#Positive #Play #Victory

The secret of winning is working more as a team, less as individuals.
-- Knute Rockne

#Basketball #Team #Winning

Leaders are like eagles... they don't flock. You'll find them one at a time.
-- Knute Rockne

#Athlete #Eagles #Leader

At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrassed in front of our friends.
-- Knute Rockne

#Sports #Home #Ideas

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.
-- Knute Rockne

#Sports #Football #Mean

If the coach insists upon hard play, but clean play, the team will do likewise.
-- Knute Rockne

#Team #Play #Coaches

If we're a hit, let 'em say anything they want.
-- Knute Rockne

#Sports #Say Anything #Ems

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.
-- Knute Rockne

#Pain #Genius #Definitions

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.
-- Knute Rockne

#Football #Morning #Team

Never tell 'em how many lettermen you've got coming back. Tell 'em how many you lost.
-- Knute Rockne

#Leadership #Sports #Ems

I'm getting sick and tired of doing anything half-way.
-- Knute Rockne

#Tired #Sick #Half

Let's win one for the Gipper.
-- Knute Rockne

#Football #Winning #College

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

#Banquets

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

#Football #Team #Winning

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

#Fall #Winning #Enthusiasm

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. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, "Oh, well, there's another Saturday." The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.
-- Knute Rockne

#Sports #Football #Mean

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.
-- Knute Rockne

#Encouragement #Team #Player

All the world loves a winner and has no time for a loser.
-- Knute Rockne

#World #Loser #Winner