Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure. Knute Rockne More Quotes by Knute Rockne More Quotes From Knute Rockne 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. Knute Rockne teamworkplaymotivational 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 businessfootballsports Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points. Knute Rockne strongfootballsports Courage means being afraid to do something, but still doing it. Knute Rockne winnerchampionmean One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it. Knute Rockne motivationalpositiveinspirational Leaders are like eagles... they don't flock. You'll find them one at a time. Knute Rockne athleteinspirationalsports If winning isn't everything why bother to keep the score? Knute Rockne scorebotherwinning The secret of winning is working more as a team, less as individuals. Knute Rockne teambasketballwinning Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself. Knute Rockne inspirationalsportspast 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 teamwinningfootball 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 footballsoccersports 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. Knute Rockne playmotivationalsports 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. Knute Rockne teamencouragementplayer 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 strongcollegefootball I have to get the most energy out of a man and have discovered that it cannot be done if he hates another man. Hate blocks his energy and he isn't up to par until he eliminates it and develops a friendly feeling...(towards all his teammates.) Knute Rockne blockhatemotivational Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up. Knute Rockne footballsoccersports All the world loves a winner and has no time for a loser. Knute Rockne world-loveloserworld There is no need for me continuing unless I'm able to improve. Knute Rockne nflmotivationalsports Let's win one for the Gipper. Knute Rockne winningfootballsports I've found that prayers work best when you have big players. Knute Rockne playerprayerfootball
