Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
BOBBY KNIGHTGood planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought… about potential pitfalls.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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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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There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I’ve always been too confrontational, especially when I know I’m right.
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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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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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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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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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As I’ve said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators – not recently – fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
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My definition isas follows: 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it it that way all the time.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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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I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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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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I’d probably be better off without trying to satisfy me, with my sense of humor. There are things that I have said that are funny to me, but they weren’t to somebody in the press. So that hasn’t worked to my benefit.
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