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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
Businessperson
Football Player
Head Coach
Knute Larsen Rockne
Knute Kenneth Rockne
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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 man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
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Let's win one for the Gipper.
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If I flop, let 'em pan me.
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Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.
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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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Never tell 'em how many lettermen you've got coming back. Tell 'em how many you lost.
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Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself.
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All the world loves a winner and has no time for a loser.
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There is no need for me continuing unless I'm able to improve.
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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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There is not economy in getting cheap service or equipment. Buy the best and cry only once.
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Win or lose, do it fairly.
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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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If the coach insists upon hard play, but clean play, the team will do likewise.
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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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Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.
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One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.
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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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No star playing, just football.
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