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
BOBBY KNIGHTThe structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Pat has been instrumental in what we’ve done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we’ve done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that’s Pat.
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I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.
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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.
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
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I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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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 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 don’t intend to retire.
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You see we’ve got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he’s still coaching. I really don’t understand that.
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A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven’t been as well taught.
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There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I’ve always been too confrontational, especially when I know I’m right.
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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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