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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
Sports
Getting
Half
Anything
Way
Tired
Sick

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Win or lose, do it fairly.
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Let's win one for the Gipper.
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No star playing, just football.
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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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Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself.
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Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.
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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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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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If winning isn't everything why bother to keep the score?
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One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
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