Quotes by Knute Rockne

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

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

“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.”

“Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now.”

“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.”

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

“Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.”

“On the road we're somebody else's guests and we play in a way that they'renot going to forget we visited them.”

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

“One loss is good for the soul. Too many losses are not good for the coach.”

“Let's win this one for the Gipper.”

“Let's win one for the Gipper.”

“Win or lose, do it fairly.”

“One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it.”

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

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

“Now I'm going to tell you something I've kept to myself for years. None of you ever knew George Gipp. He was long before your time, but you all know what a tradition he is at Notre Dame. And the la...”