At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven’t called walking for 20 years, now you don’t know what it is. When you call walking, you’re about half right.
BOBBY KNIGHTI tell you what really fries my ass. When somebody gets on me for the way I look. Fat. Overweight. Well, I may be overweight. But I’m sure not fat.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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When a passer has the option of passing to two players, I expect him to get the ball to the best shooter. I continually stop practice and ask players who the best shooter is and I expect them to know. It is important that you get the ball to your best shooter.
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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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You can’t imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, “God, you treat those assholes like I’d like to treat them.” And my question is, “Then why don’t you?”.
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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they’ll get rid of me, too.
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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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Practice structure determines success.
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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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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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We don’t want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What’s going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?
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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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Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
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