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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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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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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Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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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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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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And I guarantee you, I’m a better athlete than any f***g body writing. To this day, they don’t want to play tennis with me. The don’t want to play me in golf. They don’t want to f***g run with me
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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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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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I’d probably be better off without trying to satisfy me, with my sense of humor. There are things that I have said that are funny to me, but they weren’t to somebody in the press. So that hasn’t worked to my benefit.
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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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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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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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If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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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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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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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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There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions that are a lot alike. There aren’t a hell of a lot of really good coaches or writers.
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From the time I started teaching, when I was 21, I’ve always signed my name Bob Knight. My college coach called me Bobby, still does. But I have never introduced myself to anybody in my adult life in any way other than, “I’m Bob Knight.”
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