Win or lose, do it fairly. — Knute Rockne

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. — Knute Rockne

Never tell ’em how many lettermen you’ve got coming back. Tell ’em how many you lost. — Knute Rockne

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

There is not economy in getting cheap service or equipment. Buy the best and cry only once. — Knute Rockne

Play like you’re positive on the victory, even though they’re leading big now. — Knute Rockne

Boards, boards, boards. — Knute Rockne

A coach’s greatest asset is his sense of responsibility–the reliance placed on him by his players. — Knute Rockne

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

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

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

If the coach insists upon hard play, but clean play, the team will do likewise. — Knute Rockne

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

Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself. — Knute Rockne

There is no need for me continuing unless I’m able to improve. — Knute Rockne

It’s my show. — 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

Let’s win one for the Gipper. — Knute Rockne

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

I’m getting sick and tired of doing anything half–way. — 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

No star playing, just football. — Knute Rockne

If we’re a hit, let ’em say anything they want. — Knute Rockne

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

If winning isn’t everything why bother to keep the score? — Knute Rockne

Generalities don’t count and won’t help you in football. — Knute Rockne

It isn’t necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it. — Knute Rockne

I’ve found that prayers work best when you have big players. — Knute Rockne

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up. — Knute Rockne