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.
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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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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When a passer has the option of passing to two players, I expect him to get the ball to the best shooter. I continually stop practice and ask players who the best shooter is and I expect them to know. It is important that you get the ball to your best shooter.
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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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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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We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
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What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots
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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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From the time I started teaching, when I was 21, I’ve always signed my name Bob Knight. My college coach called me Bobby, still does. But I have never introduced myself to anybody in my adult life in any way other than, “I’m Bob Knight.”
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I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
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