Quote

All the world loves a winner and has no time for a loser.

Knute Rockne

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Winner
Loves
Time
World
Loser

More quotes by Knute Rockne

Image
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.)
Knute Rockne
Image
If I flop, let 'em pan me.
Knute Rockne
Image
One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.
Knute Rockne
Image
Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.
Knute Rockne
Image
Win or lose, do it fairly.
Knute Rockne
Image
There is no need for me continuing unless I'm able to improve.
Knute Rockne
Image
A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players.
Knute Rockne
Image
Let's win one for the Gipper.
Knute Rockne
Image
I'm getting sick and tired of doing anything half-way.
Knute Rockne
Image
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
Image
Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
Knute Rockne
Image
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.
Knute Rockne
Image
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.
Knute Rockne
Image
Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.
Knute Rockne
Image
If winning isn't everything why bother to keep the score?
Knute Rockne
Image
Yes, I know that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks, too. But we're gonna fool them.
Knute Rockne
Image
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.
Knute Rockne
Image
At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrassed in front of our friends.
Knute Rockne
Image
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.
Knute Rockne
Image
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
Knute Rockne