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.
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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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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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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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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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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I’ve never felt my job was to win basketball games – rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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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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And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
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In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
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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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