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Knute Rockne
American
Coach
About the author
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,
American
Coach
#Now
#Enemy
#Fool
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,
American
Coach
#Public
#Winning
#Losing
#Results
#Enthusiasm
Win or lose, do it fairly.
Knute Rockne,
American
Coach
Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now.
Knute Rockne,
American
Coach
#Now
#Play
#Leading
#Positive
#Victory
We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is - don't lose.
Knute Rockne,
American
Coach
#Winning
There is no need for me continuing unless I'm able to improve.
Knute Rockne,
American
Coach
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,
American
Coach
#Coach
#Work
#Play
The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.
Knute Rockne,
American
Coach
#Execution
#Football
#Deception
Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
Knute Rockne,
American
Coach
#Failure
When you were riding on the crest of a wave, youwere most likely to be missing out on something.
Knute Rockne,
American
Coach
Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.
Knute Rockne,
American
Coach
#Football
One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.
Knute Rockne,
American
Coach
#Coach
#Soul
#Loss
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,
American
Coach
#Forget
#Play
#Road
#Guests
Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Knute Rockne,
American
Coach
#Thinking
#Men
It's my show.
Knute Rockne,
American
Coach
If we're a hit, let 'em say anything they want.
Knute Rockne,
American
Coach
#Want
If I flop, let 'em pan me.
Knute Rockne,
American
Coach
I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.
Knute Rockne,
American
Coach
#Work
I'm getting sick and tired of doing anything half-way.
Knute Rockne,
American
Coach
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.
Knute Rockne,
American
Coach
#Men
#Talking
#Football
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
Knute Rockne,
American
Coach
#Teaching
#Man
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,
American
Coach
#Life
#Success
#Years
#Man
#Football
Let's win one for the Gipper.
Knute Rockne,
American
Coach
Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.
Knute Rockne,
American
Coach
#First
Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.
Knute Rockne,
American
Coach
At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrased in front of our friends.
Knute Rockne,
American
Coach
#Home
#Being
#Friends
#Idea
A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players.
Knute Rockne,
American
Coach
#Coach
#Responsibility
#Sense
Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.
Knute Rockne,
American
Coach
#Help
#Football
We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.
Knute Rockne,
American
Coach
#Infinite
#Genius
It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.
Knute Rockne,
American
Coach
You know, I've been attending so many banquets that I know what they're going to serve before I get there.
Knute Rockne,
American
Coach