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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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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Perform drills that force your players to think
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Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that’s going to happen, let’s make it happen.
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As I’ve said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators – not recently – fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
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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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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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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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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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I don’t intend to retire.
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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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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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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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I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was ‘It will be O.K.’ I would wonder, ‘How the hell is it going to be O.K.?’ The worst word in the English language is ‘hope.’
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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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In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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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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Superiority 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.
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At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven’t called walking for 20 years, now you don’t know what it is. When you call walking, you’re about half right.
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I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
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