Knute Rockne

Coach

1888-03-04

Quotes by Knute Rockne

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

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

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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

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• Win or lose, do it fairly.

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