You can’t imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, “God, you treat those assholes like I’d like to treat them.” And my question is, “Then why don’t you?”.
BOBBY KNIGHTAs I’ve said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators – not recently – fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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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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I’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
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Pat has been instrumental in what we’ve done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we’ve done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that’s Pat.
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To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you’re a part of them and they’re a part of you.
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As I’ve said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators – not recently – fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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You remember when you were a kid growing up, and believed in Santa Claus? There’s not much difference between Santa Claus and me today, you know. We’re two overweight lovable guys that kids really enjoy.
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Offense is not equal opportunity
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
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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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