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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.

Bobby Knight

BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Deeper Higher Phd
I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Night Practice
I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Fake Game Wonder
From the time I started teaching, when I was 21, I’ve always signed my name Bob Knight. My college coach called me Bobby, still does. But I have never introduced myself to anybody in my adult life in any way other than, “I’m Bob Knight.”
BOBBY KNIGHT

College Knight Teaching
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Coaching Sports Team
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 KNIGHT

Basketball Jobs Team
The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Country Long People Red
The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Inspirational Life Motivational
Offense at Indiana is not equal opportunity. Those players who shoot best are going to shoot most. It is important that every player know his offensive limitations. It is also important that a player know who the best shooter is on the team.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Opportunity Team
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
Everybody hears, but few listen.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Everybody Listen
There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions that are a lot alike. There aren’t a hell of a lot of really good coaches or writers.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Country Games Jobs Media People Sports
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
Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Leadership Motivational
Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that’s going to happen, let’s make it happen.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Better Happen More Sport Well
Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Desire Failure
All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Education Sports
I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Coaches Games Sports Teacher
Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Country Games People Sports
Pat has been instrumental in what we’ve done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we’ve done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that’s Pat.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Hands Selfish
Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Mistake Team Victory
Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball May
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
BOBBY KNIGHT

Day Guarantee Run Tennis Writing
You can’t imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, “God, you treat those assholes like I’d like to treat them.” And my question is, “Then why don’t you?”.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Numbers People Sports
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

Basketball Inspirational Sports
It is better to anticipate than to react.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Anticipate Better React
It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt that this word is the most ill-defined in all of our language.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Discipline Leadership Sports

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