Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
BOBBY KNIGHTI always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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I don’t intend to retire.
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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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If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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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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You can’t imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, “God, you treat those assholes like I’d like to treat them.” And my question is, “Then why don’t you?”.
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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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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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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At 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.
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I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
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