“I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.” John D. Rockefeller

“People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.” George E. Allen

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Winston Churchill

“I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.” John D. Rockefeller

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George “The Gipper” Gipp (February 18, 1895 – December 14, 1920) was a famous college football player who played for the University of Notre Dame.

[edit] Personal

Born in Laurium, Michigan, he entered Notre Dame intending to play baseball for the Fighting Irish, but was recruited by Knute Rockne for the football team, despite having no experience in organized football. During his Notre Dame career, Gipp rushed for 2,341 yards and threw for 1,789. A versatile player, Gipp scored 21 touchdowns, averaged 38 yards a punt, and gathered 5 interceptions as well as 14 yards per punt return and 22 yards per kick return in four seasons of play for the Irish.

[edit] Death

Gipp died December 14, 1920, two weeks after being elected Notre Dame’s first All-American by Walter Camp. The apocryphal story of Gipp’s death begins when he returned to Notre Dame’s campus after curfew from a night out. Unable to gain entrance to his residence, Gipp went to the rear door of Washington Hall, the campus’ theatre building. Gipp was a steward for the building and knew the rear door was often unlocked. He usually spent such nights in the hall. On that night, however, the door was locked, and Gipp was forced to sleep outside. By the morning he had contracted pneumonia and eventually died from a related infection. It is more likely that Gipp contracted strep throat and pneumonia while giving punting lessons after his final game, November 20 against Northwestern University.

It was on his hospital bed that he delivered the famous, but possibly fictional, “win just one for the Gipper” line. The full quotation from which the line is derived is:

I’ve got to go, Rock. It’s all right. I’m not afraid. Some time, Rock, when the team is up against it, when things are wrong and the breaks are beating the boys, ask them to go in there with all they’ve got and win just one for the Gipper. I don’t know where I’ll be then, Rock. But I’ll know about it, and I’ll be happy.

Rockne used the story of Gipp, along with this deathbed line that he attributed to Gipp, to rally his team to an underdog victory over the undefeated Army team of 1928

“yesterday’s history, tomorrow’s a mystery, but today, today is a gift.”

aka- live for the here and now and don’t worry about the past or whats ahead.

Albert Einstein.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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