Bobby Knight Quotes About Sports

Quotes about: Sports

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

  Bobby Knight

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

• When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass.

  Bobby Knight

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

  "Knight moves to Texas" by Kevin Asseo, news.bbc.co.uk. March 22, 2001.

• Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.

  Bobby Knight

  Sports, Fighting, Elephants

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

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Education, Sports

• Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.

  Bobby Knight

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Sports, Athlete

• Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

  Bobby Knight

  Motivational, Leadership, Basketball

• It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt that this word is the most ill-defined in all of our language. My definition isas follows: 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it it that way all the time.

  Bobby Knight

  Leadership, Sports, Discipline

• To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you're a part of them and they're a part of you.

  Bobby Knight

  Sports, Team, Coaching

• Do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done the best way it can be done, and do it that way every time.

  Bobby Knight

  Sports, Needs, Done

• You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.

  Bobby Knight

  Sports, Play, Balls

• 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

  Sports, Thinking, Games

• I think the ability to motivate might be interpreted as the ability to lead, or to show people their goals or, perhaps more important, what their potential is - as a person as well as a player. You've got to show players that being part of a team will carry over to the experience of becoming part of society.

  Bobby Knight

  Sports, Team, Player

• I don't think I have ever been out of control.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Sports, Thinking

• I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Sports, Morning

• If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Sports, Son

• 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

  Basketball, Sports, Real

• I have as many good friends in the media as anybody in sports has. It's just that I probably have a hell of a lot more enemies than anybody else.

  Bobby Knight

  Sports, Good Friend, Media

  "On the Road With America's Angriest Man. An Interview With Bobby Knight". playboysfw.kinja.com. March 20, 2014.

• I'm not sure sports writing is an art.

  Bobby Knight

  Sports, Art, Writing

  Source: business.highbeam.com

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

  Bobby Knight

  Sports, Teacher, Retirement

• 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

  Sports, Numbers, People

  "On the Road With America's Angriest Man. An Interview With Bobby Knight". playboysfw.kinja.com. March 20, 2014.

• Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Sports, Past

• Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.

  Bobby Knight

  Sports, Art, Writing

  "On the Road With America's Angriest Man. An Interview With Bobby Knight". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, playboysfw.kinja.com. March 20, 2014.

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

  Bobby Knight

  Sports, Thinking, Coaching

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