Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.
Bobby Knight
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
Coach
Massillon
Ohio
Robert Montgomery Knight
Bobby Knight
The General
Biggest
Basketball
Motivational
Sports
Guy
Athletic
Nature
Opponent
Human
Opponents
Humans
Athlete
More quotes by Bobby Knight
I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
Bobby Knight
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
I think that to stop an offense, you must go to the heart of that offense. If it is a particular move, a screen, the break, an outstanding scorer, whatever it is that they like to do and rely on, you have to work in your plans on taking that completely or as much as possible away from them.
Bobby Knight
America has the greatest reputation in the world for helping others whenever and wherever disaster strikes. Now, more than ever,it's important for us to contribute to those who are in need. Your assistance is really beneficial and will be greatly welcomed and appreciated.
Bobby Knight
People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
Bobby Knight
I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
Bobby Knight
Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.
Bobby Knight
Al McGuire talked to me I don't know how many times about dealing with the press: You've got to be a con man. I tried that for a day or so, but it never really worked for me.
Bobby Knight
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
I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
Bobby Knight
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
Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls.
Bobby Knight
As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
Bobby Knight
I don't intend to retire.
Bobby Knight
I think that it's perhaps harder to learn from victory than it is from defeat. I think that we don't want defeat. We don't want defeat in sport. 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
Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
Bobby Knight
I've never felt my job was to win basketball games - rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.
Bobby Knight
A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
Bobby Knight
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.
Bobby Knight
I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.
Bobby Knight
