Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
BOBBY KNIGHTMy 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Offense is not equal opportunity
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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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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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’ve never felt my job was to win basketball games – rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.
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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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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought… about potential pitfalls.
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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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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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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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