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.
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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I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.
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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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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, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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Positive wish: ‘The sun will come out tomorrow.’ Negative reality: ‘Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.
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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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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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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt that this word is the most ill-defined in all of our language.
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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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I 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.
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I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
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I’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
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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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