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?”.
BOBBY KNIGHTThis 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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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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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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I don’t intend to retire.
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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you’re a part of them and they’re a part of you.
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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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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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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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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Offense is not equal opportunity
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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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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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We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
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