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I don’t intend to retire.

Bobby Knight

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 KNIGHT

Basketball Inspirational Sports
Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Game Men Passing
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Hands Selfish
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Definition Follow Ingredient Parent Time
If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Fame Opinion Popularity
All 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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Kids Morning Running
Practice structure determines success.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Coaching Practice
When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was ‘It will be O.K.’ I would wonder, ‘How the hell is it going to be O.K.?’ The worst word in the English language is ‘hope.’
BOBBY KNIGHT

Coaching Firsts Thinking
This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they’ll get rid of me, too.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Guarantees Long Towns
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Running Writing
Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought… about potential pitfalls.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Fixing Needs Pitfalls
I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Believe Luck Preparation
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Knights Son
I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Believe People Thinking
Good basketball always starts with good defense!
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Country Defense Games People Sports
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Athlete Basketball Thinking

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