Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Knut Rockne, fully Knute Kenneth Rockne

Norwegian-born American Football Player and Legendary Coach

"Most men when they think they are thinking are simply rearranging their prejudices."

"Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself."

"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."

"Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points."

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

"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."