Quotes from Knute Rockne


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I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.


You know, I've been attending so many banquets that I know what they're going to serve before I get there.


If we're a hit, let 'em say anything they want.



If I flop, let 'em pan me.


Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.


There is no need for me continuing unless I'm able to improve.


It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.


Win one for the Gipper.


A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players.


Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now.


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.


Yes, I now that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks too. But we're gonna fool them.


One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.


Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.


Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.


Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.


Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.


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


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.