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.
BOBBY KNIGHTI, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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Perform drills that force your players to think
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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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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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At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven’t called walking for 20 years, now you don’t know what it is. When you call walking, you’re about half right.
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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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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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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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I’ve always had an a$$-to-the-brain theory. When a player’s a$$ gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, Get me off of here.
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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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