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I don't think I have ever been out of control.
Bobby Knight
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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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Massillon
Ohio
Robert Montgomery Knight
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More quotes by 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
In my dealings with the press, I was like the guy who goes into the cathouse and the madam gets him prepared and looks at him and says, Who are you going to satisfy with that? And he looks back at her and says, Me. That's kind of my sense of humor at times.
Bobby Knight
Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
Bobby Knight
Players must be able to carry out simple instructions from the bench to the court. If they can't, then they can't play
Bobby Knight
Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls.
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
I'm not sure sports writing is an art.
Bobby Knight
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
All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average. What I did was bring that kid in at 5:00 in the morning, and he would run the stairs from the bottom to the top until I told him to quit.
Bobby Knight
All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
Bobby Knight
To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
Bobby Knight
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
Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.
Bobby Knight
A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
Bobby Knight
Positive wish: 'The sun will come out tomorrow.' Negative reality: 'Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.
Bobby Knight
The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
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
I don't intend to retire.
Bobby Knight
I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
Bobby Knight
