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
You know, I’ve been attending so many banquets that I know what they’re going to serve before I get there. – 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
Yes, I now that you feel you are not strong enough. That’s what the enemy thinks too. But we’re gonna fool them. – Knute Rockne
A coach’s greatest asset is his sense of responsibility – the reliance placed on him by his players. – Knute Rockne
At home we’re the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrased in front of our friends. – Knute Rockne
The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception. – Knute Rockne
We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains. – Knute Rockne
We count on winning. And if we lose, don’t beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is – don’t lose. – Knute Rockne
Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public’s enthusiasm. – Knute Rockne
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
When you were riding on the crest of a wave, youwere most likely to be missing out on something. – 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
