Knute Rockne Quotes
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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.
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Let's win one for the Gipper.
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The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.
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One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
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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.
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Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.
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A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players.
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Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.
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At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrased in front of our friends.
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Yes, I know that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks too. But we're gonna fool them.
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There is no need for me continuing unless I'm able to improve.
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It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.
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If I flop, let 'em pan me.
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One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.
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Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.
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We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.
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Win one for the Gipper.
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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.
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You know, I've been attending so many banquets that I know what they're going to serve before I get there.
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Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.
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Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now.
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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.
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Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.
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Win or lose, do it fairly.