Tag: 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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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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I’ll tell you one thing about Donald Trump: There will never be a Benghazi in a Donald Trump administration.
Bobby Knight
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I’m an unemployed teacher right now and I’m looking for a place to teach.
Bobby Knight
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I enjoyed needling the press. If I didn’t enjoy it, I wouldn’t have done it. Writers have rarely played, so as a coach, you have antagonistic feelings about some guy writing up the story of the game who’s never even attempted to play it.
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 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
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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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Harry Truman, with what he did in dropping and having the guts to drop the bomb in 1944, saved – saved millions of American lives.
Bobby Knight
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My dad was a very quiet person, and unbelievably tough. But my grandmother gave me my first look at negative thinking to bring about positive results. When I was just a little guy, anytime I came to my grandmother and said I wish for this or that, Grandma would say, ‘If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.’
Bobby Knight