79 Quotes by Knute Rockne

Let’s win one for the Gipper.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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