I 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.
BOBBY KNIGHTI think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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.
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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you’re a part of them and they’re a part of you.
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My overall point is that ‘one and dones’ are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I apologize.
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I’ve always had an a$$-to-the-brain theory. When a player’s a$$ gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, Get me off of here.
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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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I’m not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn’t have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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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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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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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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