The Official Site of Knute Rockne: Quotes

"Sometime, Rock, when the team is up against it, when things are going wrong and the breaks are beating the boys- tell them to go in there with all they've got and win just one for the Gipper. I don't know where I'll be then, Rock. But I'll know about it, and I'll be happy." - George "The Gipper" Gipp
"It takes a big calamity to shock a country all at once, but Knute, you did it. You died one of our national heroes. Notre Dame was your address, but every gridiron in America was your home." - Will Rogers

"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."
I'd run along the beach, Dorais would throw from all angles. People who didn't know (that) we were two college seniors making painstaking preparations for our final season probably thought we were crazy."
"Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points."
"Let's win one for the Gipper."
"No star playing, just football."
"One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it."
"Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure."
"Win or lose, do it fairly."
"The Army halfback covering me almost yawned in my face, he was that bored."
"Everybody seemed astonished. There had been no hurdling, no tackling, no plunging, no crushing....just a long distance touchdown by rapid transit."
"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."
"I've found that prayers work best when you have big players."