BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
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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I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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Offense at Indiana is not equal opportunity. Those players who shoot best are going to shoot most. It is important that every player know his offensive limitations. It is also important that a player know who the best shooter is on the team.
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And I guarantee you, I’m a better athlete than any f***g body writing. To this day, they don’t want to play tennis with me. The don’t want to play me in golf. They don’t want to f***g run with me
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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It’s conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.
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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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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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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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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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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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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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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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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they’ll get rid of me, too.
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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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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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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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We don’t want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What’s going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?
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