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Never tell 'em how many lettermen you've got coming back. Tell 'em how many you lost.
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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Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
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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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If winning isn't everything why bother to keep the score?
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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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You know, I've been attending so many banquets that I know what they're going to serve before I get there.
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I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.
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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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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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Leaders are like eagles... they don't flock. You'll find them one at a time.
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Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself.
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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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At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrassed in front of our friends.
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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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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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One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
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