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Knute Rockne Biography

Knute Kenneth Rockne (/kəˈnuːt/ kə-NOOT; March 4, 1888 – March 31, 1931) was a Norwegian-American football player and coach at the University of Notre Dame.

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There is no need for me continuing unless I'm able to improve.

Continuing, Improve, Motivational, Nfl, Sports, Unless

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

Back, College, Dumb, Football, Leadership, Lineman

No star playing, just football.

Football, Playing, Star, Stars

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

Asset, Greatest, Motivational, Player, Responsibility, Sense

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

Likely, Missing You, Riding, Sports, Youwere

Courage means being afraid to do something, but still doing it.

Afraid, Champion, Courage, Mean, Winner

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

Inspirational, Man, Motivational, Positive, Sportsmanship, Teaching

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

Attending, Banquets, Know, Knows

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.

Breakfast, Football, Game, Morning, Team, Time

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

Build, Football, Sports, Strong, Weaknesses

Leaders are like eagles. . . they don't flock. You'll find them one at a time.

Athlete, Flock, Inspirational, Like, Sports, Time

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Fairly, Lose, Motivational Sports, Nfl, Win, 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.

Football, Making, Plenty, Team, Winning

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.

Business, Come, Football, Heart, Sports

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

Based, Blocking, Football, Soccer, Sports, Timing

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

Definitions, Genius, Geniuses, Infinite, Pain, Pains

All the world loves a winner and has no time for a loser.

Loser, Loves, Time, World, World Love

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

College, Football, Good, Hear, Nfl, See

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. )

Block, Discovered, Energy, Hate, Man, Motivational

The secret of winning is working more as a team, less as individuals.

Basketball, Secret, Team, Winning

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