12 Quotes & Sayings By Knute Rockne

Knute Rockne, born Knute Rockne in Copenhagen, Denmark on November 6, 1888, was the iconic head coach of the University of Notre Dame's undefeated "Fighting Irish" football teams of the early 1920s. He is also famous for his "Win One for the Gipper" speech delivered at halftime of the 1923 Rose Bowl game.

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Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points. Knute Rockne
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On the road we're somebody else's guests and we play in a way that they'renot going to forget we visited them. Knute Rockne
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Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure. Knute Rockne
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One loss is good for the soul. Too many losses are not good for the coach. Knute Rockne
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Let's win this one for the Gipper. Knute Rockne
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Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure. Knute Rockne
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One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it. Knute Rockne
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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. Knute Rockne
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Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now. Knute Rockne
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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. Knute Rockne
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Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices. Knute Rockne