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.
BOBBY KNIGHTWhen 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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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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If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.
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So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, ‘He’s saying God screwed the pitcher.
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If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
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I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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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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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.
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BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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You see we’ve got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he’s still coaching. I really don’t understand that.
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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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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.
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