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.
BOBBY KNIGHTI’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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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And I guarantee you, I’m a better athlete than any f***g body writing. To this day, they don’t want to play tennis with me. The don’t want to play me in golf. They don’t want to f***g run with me
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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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As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It’s conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.
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Perform drills that force your players to think
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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 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 don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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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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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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I don’t intend to retire.
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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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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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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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Positive wish: ‘The sun will come out tomorrow.’ Negative reality: ‘Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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I’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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