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I'm getting sick and tired of doing anything half-way.

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
Way
Tired
Sick
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Getting
Half
Anything

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Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
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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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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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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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