I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
BOBBY KNIGHTSuperiority and success doesn’t favor good effort or self-esteem… The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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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.
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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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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.
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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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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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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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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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Practice structure determines success.
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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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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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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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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