College Football annual bowl season is full of surprises and spectacular moments. Famous coaches have had some memorable remarks about American's most popular sport, here are some of them legendary Notre Dame coach Knut Rockne, who many consider to be the best of the best.
Knut Rockne's head coaching record in college football is second to none, and his won-loss percentage is better than any other college or pro coach ever.
in 13 years with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Rockne's regular-season won-loss percentage was 90% (105-12-5), his winning percentage of all games is 86%, and he led Notre Dame and 6 national championships, winning titles in 1919 (9-0), 1920 (9-0), 1924 (10-0), 1927 (7-1-1), 1929 (9-0) and 1930 (10-0) . Five of its six national championships came from undefeated teams.
the way he trained the immortal George "Gipper" Gipp, who has more skill lifted Notre Dame to national fame, and "Four Horsemen" backfield Harry Stuhldreher, Don Miller, Jim Crowley and Elmer Layden who led the fight Ireland's 28-2 record.
Although it covers Notre Dame football game, sportswriter Grantland Rice wrote the famous opening of the story-"outlined against a blue-gray October Skies, the Four Horsemen rode again," who became a legend in sports history.
Rockne impact on the game of football is huge. He is credited with help popularize the forward pass, running intersectional rivalries, build a national schedule, and run "Rockne Shift" T backfield formation, which quickly shifted the framework for the formation of the right or left because the ball was snapped.
It was the first coach to realize the market potential of football as an entertainment medium and openly promotes the Notre Dame football by courting the media for free advertising, so Notre Dame football program will be financially successful.
Knut Rockne was Norwegian immigrant who graduated magna cum laude from Notre Dame in 1914, played end for the fight against the Irish to defeat a high-ranking Army team for the first time in 1913, a graduate assistant in chemistry before the end of becoming Notre Dame's head coach in 1918.Protestantske, he converted to Catholicism later in life.
After the undefeated, 6 state championship team in 1930, Rockne died at the age of 43, a passenger in a tragic accident Fokker aircraft, which will help revolutionize transportation business and lead to all-metal Boeing 247 aircraft. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951 as a charter member.
Here are some of Knut Rockne most famous quotes:
"Four years of football is calculated to breed on average one more ingredient to success in life than almost any academic course, he takes ."
"There are a host, and I never liked the idea of being embarrassed in front of our friends ."
"On the way we have someone other guests - and we play in a way that is not going to forget them visited ."
"We count on winning if you lose, not beef and the best way to prevent the beefing -.. I lose ."
"Let's win one for the Gipper ."
"I've found that prayers work best when they are big players ."
"It is not necessary to see a good fight. You can hear ."
"One loss is good for the soul, too many losses is not good for a coach ."
"Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure ."
"Yes, I know you think you are not strong enough. This is what the enemy thinks too much. But we'll fool them ."
"is the secret to work less as individuals and as a team more. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven ."
"One man practicing sport is better than to continue to ."
"Most men, when they think they are thinking, are just rearranging their prejudices ."
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