Knute Rockne Quotes About Football

Quotes about: Football

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

  Knute Rockne

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

  Knute Rockne

  Sports, Football, Strong

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

  Knute Rockne

  Soccer, Sports, Football

• 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

  Soccer, Sports, Football

• 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.

  Knute Rockne

  Sports, Football, Business

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

  Knute Rockne

  Football, College, Nfl

• The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.

  Knute Rockne

  Leadership, Football, College

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

  Knute Rockne

  Football, Prayer, Player

  "Text of Bush's Notre Dame speech". edition.cnn.com. May 20, 2001.

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

  Knute Rockne

  Inspirational, Football, Losing

• Let's win one for the Gipper.

  Knute Rockne

  Sports, Football, Winning

• 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.

  Knute Rockne

  Football, Team, Winning

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

  Knute Rockne

  Football, Strong, College

• 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.

  Knute Rockne

  Sports, Football, Mean

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

  Knute Rockne

  Motivational, Sports, Football

• No star playing, just football.

  Knute Rockne

  Football, Stars

• 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

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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

  Knute Rockne

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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

  Knute Rockne

  Soccer, Football, Helping

• The morning we left South Bend, every student and professor was out of bed long before breakfast and marched downtown accompanying the team to the railroad station. It was the first time I'd seen anything like this mass hysteria generated on the Notre Dame campus over a football game.

  Knute Rockne

  Football, Morning, Team

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