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 KNIGHTEverybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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When we’re playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man’s job to stop the center. It’s the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside.
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I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.
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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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Superiority and success doesn’t favor good effort or self-esteem… The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.
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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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Practice structure determines success.
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And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
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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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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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