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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.

Bobby Knight

You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Balls Play Sports
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Benches Brain Player
I’m not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn’t have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Athlete Basketball Thinking
We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Hard Hockey Work
You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Country Driven Games Hell People Sports
The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Accuracy Country Games Media People Simple Sports
I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Night Practice
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Self Esteem Success Winning
Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Leadership Motivational
Offense is not equal opportunity
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Game Offense Opportunity
Perform drills that force your players to think
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Player Thinking
I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Morning Sports
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?
BOBBY KNIGHT

Deal Defeat Game might Thing
People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Change People Years
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Confrontation Passion
When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was ‘It will be O.K.’ I would wonder, ‘How the hell is it going to be O.K.?’ The worst word in the English language is ‘hope.’
BOBBY KNIGHT

Coaching Firsts Thinking

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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