Knute Rockne Quotes

Success tempts many to their ruin.

We've seen a lot of people self-destruct because of a small taste of success.

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

Nothing recedes like success.

Success can set the table for tragedy if the victors are not careful.

The greatest enemy a man can have is his prosperity.

Success can breed all kinds of other behavior and cause companies to behave a certain way that isn't necessarily the ingredients for achieving more success. For instance, with success comes arrogance, and that's typically the death of success.

The minute you start believing your own success, you're on the road to ruin.

I was an arrogant man. I not only thought I could manage my life without help, I wanted it that way. I had best-selling books and a TV show and movie contracts; I felt invincible, secure in the thought that everything was my doing. And then, like all arrogant men, I came to stumble.

The biggest victories can lead to the greatest foolishness.

I was unbeatable - until I wasn't.

Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.

Success has ruined many a man.

Success had gone to my head and I made stupid decisions.

The top line is that hubris is a disease that comes from success.

Thinking you're a genius is death.

As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.

I believe that people start to get into trouble when they start to believe their own hype.

Nothing fails like success.

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.

Failure has gone to his head.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

For one thing, when you're playing as well as I was at the time, you think you can play with anything. That isn't true, of course, but I didn't know it then.