Vol. 06 · Misquoted ·Saying ·337 of 348
"Win one for the Gipper."
They never said that.
What people say
"Win one for the Gipper."
What was actually said
"Some time when the team is up against it ... ask them to go in there and win just one for the Gipper." Knute Rockne (recalling George Gipp) — Army-Notre Dame locker-room speech, 10 November 1928
Why it stuck
Rockne's 1928 speech quoted words Gipp supposedly spoke on his 1920 deathbed. The line is third-hand.
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