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 KNIGHTA primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven’t been as well taught.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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I’d probably be better off without trying to satisfy me, with my sense of humor. There are things that I have said that are funny to me, but they weren’t to somebody in the press. So that hasn’t worked to my benefit.
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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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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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The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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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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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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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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Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.
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As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It’s conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.
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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.
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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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