Bobby Knight Quotes - Page 4

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• I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.

  Bobby Knight

  Inspirational, Basketball, Four

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• I've always felt that, you know, the Almighty has a lot of things to do other than help my basketball team.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Team, Helping

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• A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven't been as well taught.

  Bobby Knight

  Teaching, People, Giving

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• 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

  Sports, Numbers, People

  "On the Road With America's Angriest Man. An Interview With Bobby Knight". playboysfw.kinja.com. March 20, 2014.

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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.

  Bobby Knight

  Years, Guy, Half

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• As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It's conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Offense And Defense, Two

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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.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Athlete, Thinking

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• The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach

  Bobby Knight

  Volleyball, Practice, Reason

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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.

  Bobby Knight

  Saws, Losing, Chance

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• Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Sports, Past

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• 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. No one would come close to being able to continue to build on what we've done here so far like he will.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Selfish, Hands

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• 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. 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

  Basketball, Running, Writing

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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.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Player, College

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• Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Massachusetts, May

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• For me to get an award from the press, I know there's been no favoritism.

  Bobby Knight

  Awards, Rewards, Favoritism

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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.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Growing Up, Kids

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• The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.

  Bobby Knight

  Simple, Media, Accuracy

  "On the Road With America's Angriest Man. An Interview With Bobby Knight". playboysfw.kinja.com. March 20, 2014.

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• During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

  Bobby Knight

  Team, Winning, Texas

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• We just got our ass beat by a much better team. It happens once in a while. Does every team win every game?

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Team, Winning

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• 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

  Teaching, College, Knights

  "On the Road With America's Angriest Man. An Interview With Bobby Knight". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, playboysfw.kinja.com. March 20, 2014.

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• People want national championship banners. People want to talk about Indiana being competitive. How do we get there? We don't get there with milk and cookies.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, People, Cookies

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• I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Night, Practice

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• I hate casual shooting. Every shot is preceded by working to get open and catch and shoot under game like conditions

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Hate, Nba

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• I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.

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  Volleyball, Said

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• We've gotten into this situation where integrity is really lacking and that's why I'm glad I'm not coaching. 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.

  Bobby Knight

  Integrity, School, Kentucky

  "Knight chides Calipari in Indiana speech". www.espn.com. December 18, 2009.

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