Knute Rockne Quotes
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The morning we left South Bend, every student and professor was out of bed long before breakfast and marched downtown accompanying the team to the railroad station. It was the first time I'd seen anything like this mass hysteria generated on the Notre Dame campus over a football game.
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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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When you were riding on the crest of a wave, youwere most likely to be missing out on something.
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No star playing, just football.
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We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is - don't lose.
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Never tell 'em how many lettermen you've got coming back. Tell 'em how many you lost.
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I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, "Oh, well, there's another Saturday." The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.
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Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.
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Courage means being afraid to do something, but still doing it.
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The best thing I ever learned in life was that things have to be worked for. A lot of people seem to think there is some sort of magic in making a winning football team. There isn't, but there's plenty of work.
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Let's win one for the Gipper.
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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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Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself.
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Boards, boards, boards.
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The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.
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A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players.
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Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
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An automobile goes nowhere efficiently unless it has a quick, hot spark to ignite things, to set the cogs of the machine in motion. So I try to make every player on my team feel he's the spark keeping our machine in motion.
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If the coach insists upon hard play, but clean play, the team will do likewise.
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One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
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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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You know, I've been attending so many banquets that I know what they're going to serve before I get there.
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The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.
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If I flop, let 'em pan me.
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Leaders are like eagles... they don't flock. You'll find them one at a time.
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All the world loves a winner and has no time for a loser.
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If we're a hit, let 'em say anything they want.
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Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.
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If winning isn't everything why bother to keep the score?
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There is no need for me continuing unless I'm able to improve.
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