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Knute Rockne

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I'm getting sick and tired of doing anything half-way.


— Knute Rockne


#doing #getting #half-way #i #sick

If we're a hit, let 'em say anything they want.


— Knute Rockne


#hit #say #want

Let's win one for the Gipper.


— Knute Rockne


Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now.


— Knute Rockne


#even #leading #like #now #play

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


#coach #eleven #i #individuals #less

Win one for the Gipper.


— Knute Rockne


Win or lose, do it fairly.


— Knute Rockne


#lose #win #win or lose

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


#almost #any #average #average man #breed

Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.


— Knute Rockne


#football #generalities #help #won #you

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


#classes #enjoy #feel #football #i






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His players included George 'Gipper' Gipp the "Four Horsemen" (Harry Stuhldreher Don Miller Jim Crowley and Elmer Layden) Frank Thomas Frank Leahy and Curly Lambeau. On November 10 1928 when the "Fighting Irish" team was losing to Army 6-0 at the end of the half Rockne entered the locker room and told the team the words he heard on Gipp's deathbed in 1920: "I've got to go Rock. " This inspired the team who then outscored Army in the second half and won the game 12-6.

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

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