Knute Rockne Quotes

Genius is nothing but continued attention.

Should you be so unfortunate as to suppose you are a genius, and that 'things will come to you,' it would be well to undeceive yourself as soon as possible. Make up your mind that industry must be the price of all you obtain, and at once begin to pay down.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy.

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

Genius is the art of taking pains

Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

Genius is patience.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

If you don't work hard, all the talent doesn't help.

It doesn't take talent to work hard.

Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.

Talent without work is useless, thank God

Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

Many successful people are no more talented than unsuccessful people. The difference between them lies in the old axiom that successful people do those things that unsuccessful people don't like to do.

Before I was a genius I was a drudge.

Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I hear a young man spoken of as giving promise of great genius, the first question I ask about him always is, Does he work?

That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.

It takes sacrifice as well as talent.

Genius is merely the capacity for taking infinite pains.

Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.

They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.