Positive wish: ‘The sun will come out tomorrow.’ Negative reality: ‘Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.
BOBBY KNIGHTWhy talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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Superiority and success doesn’t favor good effort or self-esteem… The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.
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You remember when you were a kid growing up, and believed in Santa Claus? There’s not much difference between Santa Claus and me today, you know. We’re two overweight lovable guys that kids really enjoy.
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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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You see we’ve got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he’s still coaching. I really don’t understand that.
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My definition isas follows: 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it it that way all the time.
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There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions that are a lot alike. There aren’t a hell of a lot of really good coaches or writers.
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Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
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And I guarantee you, I’m a better athlete than any f***g body writing. To this day, they don’t want to play tennis with me. The don’t want to play me in golf. They don’t want to f***g run with me
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If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.
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A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven’t been as well taught.
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I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
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I don’t intend to retire.
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I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.
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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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