"One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it."

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“Memorial at Find a Grave”

“Let's win one for the Gipper.”

“Win or lose, do it fairly.”

“Knute Rockne letters to Eugene Roberts, MSS 7691 at L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University”

“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.”

“Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.”

Resonant Thoughts

"I wish to convey a final thought- and I hope it doesn't sound out of place- but I would like to share something as I look back on the war. War brings out the worst and the best in people. Wars do not …"

— Richard Winters

Military1918–2011

#war

"A brush with death always helps us to live our lives better."

— Paulo Coelho

Science1947–1985

#death

"Spencer "was incapable", our critic haughtily re marks, "of discerning the difference between a homogeneity in matter, necessarily and blindly tending toward a heterogeneity, , and such a law of organ…"

— Noah Porter

Politics1871–1886

#justice

"I was born a vegetarian, I think. Since infancy I never liked meat, never ate it, never ate turkey, chicken, fish or eggs. … I'm so healthy it's embarrassing. If I felt any better I'd have to see a do…"

— Roy Hilligenn

1922–2008

#health