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.
BOBBY KNIGHTWhat is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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Son, my name isn’t Knight to you, it’s coach Knight or it’s Mr. Knight. I don’t call people by their last name and neither should you.
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I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
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Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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Positive wish: ‘The sun will come out tomorrow.’ Negative reality: ‘Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.
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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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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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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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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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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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The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.
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Practice structure determines success.
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