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.
BOBBY KNIGHTAt one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven’t called walking for 20 years, now you don’t know what it is. When you call walking, you’re about half right.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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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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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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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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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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You see we’ve got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he’s still coaching. I really don’t understand that.
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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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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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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