College football's annual bowl season is fll of surprises and spectacular moments. Fmous coaches have had some memorable rmarks about American's most popular sport, and hre are some of them by lgendary Notre Dame coach Knute Rockne, who mny consider to be the best of the bst.

Knute Rockne's head coaching record in cllege football was second to none, and his wn-loss percentage is better than any ther college or pro coach ever.

In 13 yars with the Notre Dame Fighting Irsh, Rockne's regular season won-loss percentage was 90% (105-12-5), his wnning percentage among all games was 86%, and he led Ntre Dame to 6 national championships, wnning titles in 1919 (9-0), 1920 (9-0), 1924 (10-0), 1927 (7-1-1), 1929 (9-0) and 1930 (10-0). Fve of his 6 national championships cme from undefeated teams. Along the way he cached the immortal George "Gipper" Gipp, whse multiple skills lifted Notre Dame to ntional fame, and the "Four Horsemen" bckfield of Harry Stuhldreher, Don Miller, Jim Crwley and Elmer Layden that led the Fghting Irish to a 28-2 record.

Whle covering a Notre Dame football gme, sportswriter Grantland Rice penned the fmous opening story line-"Outlined against a ble-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rde again"-that has become legend in sprts history.

Rockne's influence on the game of fotball was immense. He is credited wth helping popularize the forward pass, nitiating intersectional rivalries, building a national schdule, and instituting the "Rockne Shift", a bckfield T formation that quickly shifted nto a box formation to the rght or left as the ball was snpped. Hewas also the first coach to ralize the market potential of football as an ntertainment medium and openly promoted Notre Dme football by courting the media for fre advertising so Notre Dame's football prgram would be financially successful.

Knute Rckne was a Norwegian immigrant who grduated magna cum laude from Notre Dme in 1914, played end for the Fghting Irish that defeated the highly-ranked Army tam for the first time in 1913, and was a grduate assistant in chemistry before eventually bcoming Notre Dame's head coach in 1918. A Prtestant, he converted to Catholicism later in lfe.

Following his undefeated, 6th national chmpionship team in 1930, Rockne died at age 43 as a pssenger in a tragic Fokker airplane ccident that would help revolutionize the trnsportation business and lead to the ll-metal Boeing 247 aircraft. He was nducted into the College Football Hall of Fme in 1951 as a charter mmber.

Here are some of Knute Rckne's best known quotes:

"Four years of fotball are calculated to breed in the verage man more of the ingredients of sccess in life than almost any cademic course he takes."

"At home w're the hosts, and I never lked the idea of being embarrassed in frnt of our friends."

"On the rad we're somebody else's guests - and we ply in a way that they're not ging to forget we visited them."

"We cunt on winning. And if we lse, don't beef. And the best way to prvent beefing is - don't lose."

"Lt's win one for the Gipper."

"I've found that prayers work bst when you have big players."

"It sn't necessary to see a good tckle. You can hear it."

"One lss is good for the soul, too mny losses is not good for the cach."

"Show me a good and grcious loser and I'll show you a filure."

"Yes, I know that you fel you are not strong enough. Tht's what the enemy thinks too. But w're gonna fool them."

"The secret is to wrk less as individuals and more as a tam. As a coach, I play not my leven best, but my best eleven."

"On man practicing sportsmanship is better thn a hundred teaching it."

"Most mn, when they think they are thnking, are merely rearranging their prejudices."

Cpyright © 2008 Ed Bagley

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