The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
BOBBY KNIGHTFor me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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.
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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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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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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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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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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My overall point is that ‘one and dones’ are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I apologize.
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I don’t intend to retire.
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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.
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We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
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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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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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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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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.
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A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven’t been as well taught.
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