I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
BOBBY KNIGHTAll the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.
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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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And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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I’m not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn’t have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.
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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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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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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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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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Offense is not equal opportunity
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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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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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