Show me a good loser and I will show you a failure.

Knute Rockne

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Topic

Sportsmanship Losers

Speaker

Knute Rockne

Language

English

Time

1943 1940s 20th century

Occupation

Coach

From

United States

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Rockne, Knute. Quoted in Washington Post. 15 Aug. 1943.

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We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

Winston Churchill

Speech to the Canadian Parliament, December 30, 1941

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Topic
The British people World War II
Speaker
Winston Churchill
Source
Speech to the Canadian Parliament, December 30, 1941
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Language
English
Time
1941 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Churchill, Winston. "Some Chicken! Some Neck!" Joint session of Canadian Parliament. 30 Dec. 1941, Ottawa, Canada. Address.

Current Citation

Churchill, Winston. "Some chicken! Some neck!', 30 December 1941, Parliament, Ottawa." Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches. A&C Black, 2013.

Another quote from 1943

There are no atheists in the fox holes.

William Thomas Cummings

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Topic
Facing death God and war War
Speaker
William Thomas Cummings
Language
English
Time
1943 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Cummings, William Thomas. Quoted in I Saw the Fall of the Philippines, by Carlos P. Romulo. Doubleday, 1943, ch. 15.