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.
BOBBY KNIGHTBasketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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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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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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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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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt that this word is the most ill-defined in all of our language.
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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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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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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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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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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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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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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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