We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
BOBBY KNIGHTThe biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.
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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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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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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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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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 don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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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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The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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Son, my name isn’t Knight to you, it’s coach Knight or it’s Mr. Knight. I don’t call people by their last name and neither should you.
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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?”.
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BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
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