Quotes By Knute Rockne

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

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

Win one for the Gipper.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Let's win one for the Gipper.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

If I flop, let 'em pan me.

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

Win or lose, do it fairly.

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

It's my show.

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

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

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

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

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

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.