'Well, boys ... I haven't a thing to say. Played a great game...all of you. Great game.

I guess we just can't expect to win ‘em all. I'm going to tell you something I've kept to myself for years -- None of you ever knew George Gipp. It was long before your time. But you know what a tradition he is at Notre Dame...

And the last thing he said to me -- "Rock," he said - "sometime, when the team is up against it -- and the breaks are beating the boys -- tell them to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper...

I don't know where I'll be then, Rock", he said - "but I'll know about it - and I'll be happy."'

Knute Rockne by way of MGM