You remember when you were a kid growing up, and believed in Santa Claus? There’s not much difference between Santa Claus and me today, you know. We’re two overweight lovable guys that kids really enjoy.
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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Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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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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When a passer has the option of passing to two players, I expect him to get the ball to the best shooter. I continually stop practice and ask players who the best shooter is and I expect them to know. It is important that you get the ball to your best shooter.
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What 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
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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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I don’t intend to retire.
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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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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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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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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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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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