Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
BOBBY KNIGHTAnd 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
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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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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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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It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt that this word is the most ill-defined in all of our language.
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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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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.
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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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I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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When we’re playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man’s job to stop the center. It’s the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside.
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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average.
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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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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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So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, ‘He’s saying God screwed the pitcher.
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If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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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 don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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