25 Bobby Knight Quotes for You to Enjoy

Bobby Knight

American Coach

Born: Oct 25, 1940

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

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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. Bobby Knight

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I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that's going to happen, let's make it happen. Bobby Knight

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

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I watched the guy that hits a home run, and he comes across the plate and he points skyward, like thanking for the help from the Almighty to hit the home run. And as he does that, I say to myself, 'God screwed the pitcher.' And I don't know how else you look at it. Bobby Knight

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I was a history and government major at Ohio State University, and I've spent a lot of time just fiddling around with who the next president's going to be, over the years, or who would I like to see in that job, or whatever. And I've come to believe, without any reservation, in this era, the best-prepared person for this job by far is Donald Trump. Bobby Knight

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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 want to say to you Indiana people that I owe you a big, big debt of gratitude because nowhere in the world is a sporting group followed more than this state follows basketball. And I just want to thank you for the opportunity that I had to coach in this state - it will always be something that I will cherish. Bobby Knight

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If I were involved with the NBA, I wouldn't want a 19-year-old or a 20-year-old kid to bring into all the travel and all the problems that exist in the NBA. I would want a much more mature kid. I would want a kid that maybe I've been watching on another team, and now he's 21, 22 years old instead of 18 or 19, and I might trade for that kid. Bobby Knight

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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

I don't intend to retire. Bobby Knight

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

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Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros. Bobby Knight

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

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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

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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

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I just like the United States, and I like being an American. Bobby Knight

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I'm a teacher. My mother was a teacher. I spent 40 years as a teacher. Bobby Knight

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When somebody asks about the greatest players in history, I start with Bill Russell. More than the best player is the MVP, and the MVP in the history of team sports is Bill Russell. Bobby Knight

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