Bobby Knight Quotes & Sayings
32 most famous Bobby Knight quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's an 84 year old American coach born on Oct 25, 1940.
“The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.”
“People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.”
“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.”
“Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.”
“When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!”
“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.”
“Major League Baseball has the best idea of all. Three years before they'll take a kid out of college, then they have a minor league system that they put the kids in. I'm sure that if the NBA followed the same thing, there would be a lot of kids in a minor league system that still were not good enough to play in the major NBA.”
“The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.”
“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.”
“Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.”
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