Knute Rockne

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

— Knute Rockne

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

— Knute Rockne

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

— Knute Rockne

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

— Knute Rockne

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

— Knute Rockne

No star playing, just football.

— Knute Rockne

If I flop, let 'em pan me.

— 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

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

— Knute Rockne

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

— 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

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

— Knute Rockne

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

— 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

Boards, boards, boards.

— Knute Rockne

Let's win one for the Gipper.

— Knute Rockne

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

— 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

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

— Knute Rockne

Win or lose, do it fairly.

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

— Knute Rockne

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

— Knute Rockne

Courage means being afraid to do something, but still doing it.

— 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