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.
BOBBY KNIGHTAs his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought… about potential pitfalls.
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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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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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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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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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We don’t want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What’s going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?
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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I’ve always been too confrontational, especially when I know I’m right.
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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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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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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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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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