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Knute Rockne
Age: 43 †
Born: 1888
Born: March 4
Died: 1931
Died: March 31
American Football Player
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Football Player
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Knute Larsen Rockne
Knute Kenneth Rockne
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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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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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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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One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.
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Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
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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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One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
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There is no need for me continuing unless I'm able to improve.
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If I flop, let 'em pan me.
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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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There is not economy in getting cheap service or equipment. Buy the best and cry only once.
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Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself.
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Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.
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Leaders are like eagles... they don't flock. You'll find them one at a time.
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Win or lose, do it fairly.
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All the world loves a winner and has no time for a loser.
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I'm getting sick and tired of doing anything half-way.
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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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No star playing, just football.
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If winning isn't everything why bother to keep the score?
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