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.
Win or lose, do it fairly. - Knute Rockne
Win or lose, do it fairly.
- Knute Rockne
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. - Knute Rockne
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.
The secret of winning is working more as a team, less as individuals. - Knute Rockne
The secret of winning is working more as a team, less as individuals.
Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points. - Knute Rockne
Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.
If winning isn't everything why bother to keep the score? - Knute Rockne
If winning isn't everything why bother to keep the score?
Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself. - Knute Rockne
Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself.
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it. - Knute Rockne
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
Never tell 'em how many lettermen you've got coming back. Tell 'em how many you lost. - Knute Rockne
Never tell 'em how many lettermen you've got coming back. Tell 'em how many you lost.
Leaders are like eagles... they don't flock. You'll find them one at a time. - Knute Rockne
Leaders are like eagles... they don't flock. You'll find them one at a time.
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