Zitate und Sprüche von Knute Rockne

Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.

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

I've been blessed in many ways, but none of the heights from football can ever compare to the depths you go through when you lose a child.

That's one thing: When I left Notre Dame, when I left every school, what I'm the proudest of is we never compromised the rules, never were on probation, never had any major problems of any kind.

After Notre Dame, what is there?

To me, the very definition of the word "broken" suggests that something can be fixed.

Advisors and scholars will tell you that history is a narrative of strength. They will recount stories of the rise and fall of nations and empires. There will be stories of armies, battles, and decisive victories. But this isn't true strength - it's merely power. I now believe true strength is found in vulnerability. In forgiveness. In love. There is a beautiful, upside-down truth, which is that these moments of purest strength appear as weakness to those who don't know better. For a long time, I didn't know better. I ask you and your brother to reject history as a narrative of strength, and instead, have faith that it can be a narrative of love.