33 Knute Rockne Quotes

Knute Rockne quotes

1. Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

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

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

4. Let's win one for the Gipper.

5. No star playing, just football.

6. One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it.

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

8. 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.

9. Win or lose, do it fairly.

10. What most people believe is thinking, is really only a different arrangement of their prejudices.

11. 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.'

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

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

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

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

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

6. There is not economy in getting cheap service or equipment. Buy the best and cry only once.

7. At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrassed in front of our friends.

8. The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.

9. Never tell 'em how many lettermen you've got coming back. Tell 'em how many you lost.

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

11. Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.

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

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. The secret of winning is working more as a team, less as individuals.

16. 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.

17. Leaders are like eagles... they don't flock. You'll find them one at a time.

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

19. 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.

20. 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.

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

22. If winning isn't everything why bother to keep the score?