A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven’t been as well taught.
BOBBY KNIGHTI recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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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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I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
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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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In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
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So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, ‘He’s saying God screwed the pitcher.
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You remember when you were a kid growing up, and believed in Santa Claus? There’s not much difference between Santa Claus and me today, you know. We’re two overweight lovable guys that kids really enjoy.
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What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots
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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.
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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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We don’t want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What’s going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?
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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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When a passer has the option of passing to two players, I expect him to get the ball to the best shooter. I continually stop practice and ask players who the best shooter is and I expect them to know. It is important that you get the ball to your best shooter.
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