Knute Rockne Quotes

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Knute Rockne

Profession : Coach

Birth : March 4, 1888

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

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

Knute Rockne

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

Knute Rockne

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

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Win or lose, do it fairly.

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Let's win one for the Gipper.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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