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One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
Knute Rockne
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Knute Rockne
Age: 43 †
Born: 1888
Born: March 4
Died: 1931
Died: March 31
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Knute Larsen Rockne
Knute Kenneth Rockne
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Never tell 'em how many lettermen you've got coming back. Tell 'em how many you lost.
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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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All the world loves a winner and has no time for a loser.
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If the coach insists upon hard play, but clean play, the team will do likewise.
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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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If winning isn't everything why bother to keep the score?
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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.
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Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
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Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.
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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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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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One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.
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Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself.
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I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.
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At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrassed 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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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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I'm getting sick and tired of doing anything half-way.
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Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.
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The morning we left South Bend, every student and professor was out of bed long before breakfast and marched downtown accompanying the team to the railroad station. It was the first time I'd seen anything like this mass hysteria generated on the Notre Dame campus over a football game.
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