Explore Quotes by 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 them.

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

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

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

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

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.

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

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. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, "Oh, well, there's another Saturday." The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.

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.

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

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

Let's win one for the Gipper.

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

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

Boards, boards, boards.

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

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

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.

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

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

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