Bobby Knight Quotes

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Bobby Knight

Profession : Coach

Birth : October 25, 1940

I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.

Bobby Knight

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.

Bobby Knight

My dad was a very quiet person, and unbelievably tough. But my grandmother gave me my first look at negative thinking to bring about positive results. When I was just a little guy, anytime I came to my grandmother and said I wish for this or that, Grandma would say, 'If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.'

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People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.

Bobby Knight

When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!

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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

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The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Bobby Knight

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

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I'm not sure I've ever been around anybody that wanted to win more or worked harder than Michael Jordan.

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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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From my mother to people that I've known in my lifetime, they've tried to settle me down a little bit. Now I'm trying to do the same thing to my man Trump.

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As his team prepares, a coach's entire being must be concentrated on winning games.

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I don't think my dad ever raised his voice to my mother or to me, ever.

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I don't intend to retire.

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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.

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We need a Donald Trump more than we've ever needed anybody since George Washington.

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

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