Knute Rockne's Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Win or lose, do it fairly.

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

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

Let's win one for the Gipper.

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

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

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

Win one for the Gipper.