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Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
Knute Rockne
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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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I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.
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One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
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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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Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself.
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Win or lose, do it fairly.
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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 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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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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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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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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If I flop, let 'em pan me.
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I'm getting sick and tired of doing anything half-way.
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