I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
BOBBY KNIGHTWhen my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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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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Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
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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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We don’t want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What’s going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?
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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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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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I also believe that when something negative comes out about you in the media, that’s only one person’s opinion. These guys sometimes believe they’ve been ordained from on high to give the general opinion of the populace, and that just isn’t the case.
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Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that’s going to happen, let’s make it happen.
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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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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots
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