I don’t intend to retire.
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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Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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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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When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass.
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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.
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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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My overall point is that ‘one and dones’ are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I apologize.
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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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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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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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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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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