Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Monday, January 12, 2015 – Knute Rockne
Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Monday, January 12, 2015 – Knute Rockne
“A coach’s greatest asset is his sense of responsibility – the reliance placed on him by his players.”
And
“Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.”
And
“Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.”
And
“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.”
And
“It isn’t necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.”
And
“The essence of football is blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.”
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“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.”
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“We count on winning. And if we lose, don’t beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is – don’t lose.”
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“Show me a good and gracious loser and I’ll show you a failure.”
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“One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it.”
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“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.”
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“I’ve found that prayers work best when you have big players.”
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“Win or lose, do it fairly.”
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“Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up”
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“No star playing, just football.”
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“Tell the public about the boys. They’re the ones that do the work and they should get the credit. The people are interested in them, not me.”
And
“Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
And
“Let’s win one for the Gipper.”
Wikipedia: Knute Rockne
