Knute Rockne Quotes

• If I flop, let ’em pan me.

  Knute Rockne

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

  Knute Rockne

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

  Knute Rockne

• I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say.

  Knute Rockne

• Generalities don’t count and won’t help you in football.

  Knute Rockne

• 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.

  Knute Rockne

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

  Knute Rockne

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

  Knute Rockne

• Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

  Knute Rockne

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

  Knute Rockne

• A coach’s greatest asset is his sense of responsibility – the reliance placed on him by his players.

  Knute Rockne

• One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

  Knute Rockne

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Birth:	4th March, 1888
Death:	31st March, 1931
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Coach, Football Player

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