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.
BOBBY KNIGHTThe will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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I also believe that when something negative comes out about you in the media, that’s only one person’s opinion. These guys sometimes believe they’ve been ordained from on high to give the general opinion of the populace, and that just isn’t the case.
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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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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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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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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I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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Perform drills that force your players to think
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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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When we’re playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man’s job to stop the center. It’s the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside.
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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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I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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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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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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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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