Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
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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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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There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions that are a lot alike. There aren’t a hell of a lot of really good coaches or writers.
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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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I don’t intend to retire.
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I’m not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn’t have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.
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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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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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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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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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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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I’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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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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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average.
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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 red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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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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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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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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