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.
BOBBY KNIGHTI’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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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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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Offense at Indiana is not equal opportunity. Those players who shoot best are going to shoot most. It is important that every player know his offensive limitations. It is also important that a player know who the best shooter is on the team.
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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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Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
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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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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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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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From the time I started teaching, when I was 21, I’ve always signed my name Bob Knight. My college coach called me Bobby, still does. But I have never introduced myself to anybody in my adult life in any way other than, “I’m Bob Knight.”
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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Practice structure determines success.
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Son, my name isn’t Knight to you, it’s coach Knight or it’s Mr. Knight. I don’t call people by their last name and neither should you.
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