There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions that are a lot alike. There aren’t a hell of a lot of really good coaches or writers.
BOBBY KNIGHTWhy talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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My overall point is that ‘one and dones’ are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I apologize.
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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Offense is not equal opportunity
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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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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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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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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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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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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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If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.
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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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When 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.
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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