The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
BOBBY KNIGHTI 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It’s conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.
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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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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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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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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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I don’t intend to retire.
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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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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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought… about potential pitfalls.
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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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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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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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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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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