Knute Rockne Quotes

Let's win one for the Gipper.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

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.

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it.

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

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

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

"Now I'm going to tell you something I've kept to myself for years. None of you ever knew George Gipp. He was long before your time, but you all know what a tradition he is at Notre Dame. And the last thing he said to me, "Rock," he said, "sometime when the team is up against it and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to go out there with all they've got and win just one for the Gipper. I don't know where I'll be then, Rock," he said, "but I'll know about it and I'll be happy."
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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.

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

The history or traditions of a school are a great thing to recite to your team, and to keep before them. Exaggerate these as much as you can.

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

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.