Knute Rockne

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.”

“If I flop, let 'em pan me.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.”

“Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.”