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 KNIGHTYou play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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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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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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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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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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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.
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All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average.
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Practice structure determines success.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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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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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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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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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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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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