I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
BOBBY KNIGHTIf you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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My definition isas follows: 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it it that way all the time.
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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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When we’re playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man’s job to stop the center. It’s the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside.
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I don’t intend to retire.
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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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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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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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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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I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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Superiority and success doesn’t favor good effort or self-esteem… The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.
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