Explore Quotes by Knute Rockne

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

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

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

All the world loves a winner and has no time for a loser.

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

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

No star playing, just football.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Win or lose, do it fairly.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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