Knute Rockne

Win one for the Gipper.

— Knute Rockne

Boards, boards, boards.

— Knute Rockne

It's my show.

— Knute Rockne

Let's win one for the Gipper.

— Knute Rockne

If I flop, let 'em pan me.

— Knute Rockne

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

— Knute Rockne

No star playing, just football.

— Knute Rockne

Win or lose, do it fairly.

— Knute Rockne

If the coach insists upon hard play, but clean play, the team will do likewise.

— Knute Rockne

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

— Knute Rockne

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

— Knute Rockne

We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is - don't lose.

— Knute Rockne

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

— Knute Rockne

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

— Knute Rockne

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

— Knute Rockne

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

— Knute Rockne

“Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost…

— Knute Rockne

The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best,…

— Knute Rockne

I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the…

— Knute Rockne

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost…

— Knute Rockne

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

I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what…

— Knute Rockne

You know, I've been attending so many banquets that I know what they're going to serve before I get there.

— Knute Rockne

On the road we're somebody else's guests - and we play in a way that they're not going to forget we visited…

— Knute Rockne

I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the…

— Knute Rockne

An automobile goes nowhere efficiently unless it has a quick, hot spark to ignite things, to set the cogs of the machine…

— Knute Rockne

“Now I'm going to tell you something I've kept to myself for years. None of you ever knew George Gipp. He was…

— Knute Rockne

The morning we left South Bend, every student and professor was out of bed long before breakfast and marched downtown accompanying the…

— Knute Rockne

The best thing I ever learned in life was that things have to be worked for. A lot of people seem to…

— Knute Rockne

I have to get the most energy out of a man and have discovered that it cannot be done if he hates…

— Knute Rockne

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

— Knute Rockne

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

— Knute Rockne

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

— Knute Rockne

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

— Knute Rockne

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

— Knute Rockne

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

— Knute Rockne

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

— Knute Rockne

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

— Knute Rockne

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

— Knute Rockne

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

— Knute Rockne