Good basketball always starts with good defense!
BOBBY KNIGHTAll of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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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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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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When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass.
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You remember when you were a kid growing up, and believed in Santa Claus? There’s not much difference between Santa Claus and me today, you know. We’re two overweight lovable guys that kids really enjoy.
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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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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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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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Offense is not equal opportunity
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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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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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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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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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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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