I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
BOBBY KNIGHTYou are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average.
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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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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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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 don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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I’d probably be better off without trying to satisfy me, with my sense of humor. There are things that I have said that are funny to me, but they weren’t to somebody in the press. So that hasn’t worked to my benefit.
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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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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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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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I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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