Quotes from Knute Rockne

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.

If I flop, let 'em pan me.

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

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

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

When you were riding on the crest of a wave, youwere most likely to be missing out on something.

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

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

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.

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

Leaders are like eagles... they don't flock. You'll find them one at a time.

Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself.

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.

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

Win or lose, do it fairly.

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.

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

I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective.

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

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

Never tell 'em how many lettermen you've got coming back. Tell 'em how many you lost.

Let's win one for the Gipper.

We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is - don't lose.

At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrassed in front of our friends.