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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.

Bobby Knight

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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Hands Selfish
Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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Basketball May
Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Motivational Sports
Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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Practice Team Want
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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Deeper Higher Phd
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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Athlete Basketball Thinking
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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Basketball Inspirational Teamwork
Offense is not equal opportunity
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Basketball Game Offense Opportunity
The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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Country Long People Red
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 KNIGHT

Basketball Jobs Winning
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Running Writing
You can’t imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, “God, you treat those assholes like I’d like to treat them.” And my question is, “Then why don’t you?”.
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Numbers People Sports
I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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Coaches Games Sports Teacher
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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Competition Giving People Teaching
I’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Country Games People Sports Volleyball
I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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Basketball Sports Thinking

You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.

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