79 Quotes by Knute Rockne

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

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.

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

An automobile goes nowhere efficiently unless it has a quick, hot spark to ignite things, to set the cogs of the machine in motion. So I try to make every player on my team feel he's the spark keeping our machine in motion.

If winning isn't everything why bother to keep the score?

The secret of winning is working more as a team, less as individuals.

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 don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, "Oh, well, there's another Saturday." The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.

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

Courage means being afraid to do something, but still doing it.