Knute Rockne Quotes

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• The secret of winning is working more as a team, less as individuals.
• 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…
• At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrassed in front of our friends.
• Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself.
• Boards, boards, boards.
• Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.
• Yes, I know that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks, too. But we're gonna fool them.
• I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.
• The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.
• Let's win one for the Gipper.
• 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 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…
• Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.
• 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…
• You know, I've been attending so many banquets that I know what they're going to serve before I get there.
• Courage means being afraid to do something, but still doing it.
• We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.
• No star playing, just football.
• If winning isn't everything why bother to keep the score?
• I'm getting sick and tired of doing anything half-way.

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