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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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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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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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I have to get the most energy out of a man and have discovered that it cannot be done if he hates another man. Hate blocks his energy and he isn't up to par until he eliminates it and develops a friendly feeling...(towards all his teammates.)
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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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One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.
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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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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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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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Leaders are like eagles... they don't flock. You'll find them one at a time.
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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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I'm getting sick and tired of doing anything half-way.
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Win or lose, do it fairly.
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No star playing, just football.
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If the coach insists upon hard play, but clean play, the team will do likewise.
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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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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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Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself.
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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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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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Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
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