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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
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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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Robert Montgomery Knight
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Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
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
The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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
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
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
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
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
I don't think I have ever been out of control.
Bobby Knight
All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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
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
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
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
Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
Bobby Knight
I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.
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
Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.
Bobby Knight
Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
Bobby Knight
I'm not sure sports writing is an art.
Bobby Knight
