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

About Knute Rockne

Knute Kenneth Rocknewas an American football player and coach at the University of Notre Dame. Leading Notre Dame for 13 seasons, Rockne accumulated over 100 wins and three national championships.

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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 football player and coach (1888-1931)

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 football player and coach (1888-1931)

Play like you’re positive on the victory, even though they’re leading big now.

Knute Rockne

American football player and coach (1888-1931)

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

Knute Rockne

American football player and coach (1888-1931)

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

Knute Rockne

American football player and coach (1888-1931)

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

Knute Rockne

American football player and coach (1888-1931)

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

Knute Rockne

American football player and coach (1888-1931)

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

Knute Rockne

American football player and coach (1888-1931)

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

Knute Rockne

American football player and coach (1888-1931)

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

Knute Rockne

American football player and coach (1888-1931)

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

Knute Rockne

American football player and coach (1888-1931)

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

Knute Rockne

American football player and coach (1888-1931)

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 football player and coach (1888-1931)

It’s my show.

Knute Rockne

American football player and coach (1888-1931)

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Knute Rockne

American football player and coach (1888-1931)

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 football player and coach (1888-1931)

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

Knute Rockne

American football player and coach (1888-1931)

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

Knute Rockne

American football player and coach (1888-1931)

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

Knute Rockne

American football player and coach (1888-1931)

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

Knute Rockne

American football player and coach (1888-1931)

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

Knute Rockne

American football player and coach (1888-1931)

If I flop, let ’em pan me.

Knute Rockne

American football player and coach (1888-1931)

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

Knute Rockne

American football player and coach (1888-1931)

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 football player and coach (1888-1931)

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 football player and coach (1888-1931)

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 football player and coach (1888-1931)

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 football player and coach (1888-1931)

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

Knute Rockne

American football player and coach (1888-1931)

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

Knute Rockne

American football player and coach (1888-1931)

Let’s win one for the Gipper.

Knute Rockne

American football player and coach (1888-1931)

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

Knute Rockne

American football player and coach (1888-1931)