Knute Rockne Quotes

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

  Knute Rockne

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

  Knute Rockne

• 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

• Win or lose, do it fairly.

  Knute Rockne

• Win one for the Gipper.

  Knute Rockne

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

  Knute Rockne

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

  Knute Rockne

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

  Knute Rockne

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

  Knute Rockne

• 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

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

  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

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

  Knute Rockne

• 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

• Let’s win one for the Gipper.

  Knute Rockne

• It’s my show.

  Knute Rockne

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

  Knute Rockne

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

  Knute Rockne

• If I flop, let ’em pan me.

  Knute Rockne

Knute Rockne (32)

Birth:	4th March, 1888
Death:	31st March, 1931
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Coach, Football Player

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