Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
BOBBY KNIGHTSon, 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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You see we’ve got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he’s still coaching. I really don’t understand that.
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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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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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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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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I’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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I also believe that when something negative comes out about you in the media, that’s only one person’s opinion. These guys sometimes believe they’ve been ordained from on high to give the general opinion of the populace, and that just isn’t the case.
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Offense at Indiana is not equal opportunity. Those players who shoot best are going to shoot most. It is important that every player know his offensive limitations. It is also important that a player know who the best shooter is on the team.
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I 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.
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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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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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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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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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