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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
#Dad
#Look
#Me
#Positive
#Ride
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
#Average
#Daily
#Morning
#Quit
#Stairs
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
#Mature
#Old
#Problems
#Travel
#Watching
I'm a teacher. My mother was a teacher. I spent 40 years as a teacher.
- Bobby Knight
#Mother
#Spent
#Teacher
#Years
I think a great idea would be involving our various military services along the border all the way from San Diego to Houston. We've got military bases all over the country. We can just move some people down there and let those cartels who are doing a lot of hurt to the youth of America, let those cartels fight against the Marine Corps.
- Bobby Knight
#Country
#Doing
#Fight
#Great
#Youth
I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
- Bobby Knight
#Looking
#Now
#Place
#Right
#Teacher
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
#Humor
#My Own
#Own
#Sense Of Humor
#Time
There are two real keys to winning. You've got to have good players: no coach won with bad players. You win with good players. That is number one. Number two is, when we are playing, let's say we are playing Michigan, and they had a really good press: we've got to solve that press.
- Bobby Knight
#Bad
#Good
#Real
#Win
#Winning
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
#God
#Help
#Home
#Look
#Myself
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
#Best
#History
#Players
#Sports
#Start
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
#Believe
#Government
#History
#See
#Time
I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
- Bobby Knight
#Dumb
#Morning
#Next
#Regret
#Something
#Wait
I'm not sure I've ever been around anybody that wanted to win more or worked harder than Michael Jordan.
- Bobby Knight
#Michael Jordan
#More
#Sure
#Wanted
#Win
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
#Defeat
#Game
#Life
#Lose
#Victory
We need a Donald Trump more than we've ever needed anybody since George Washington.
- Bobby Knight
#Donald Trump
#More
#Need
#Washington
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
#Hell
#Hope
#Language
#Will
#Wonder
#Worst
All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
- Bobby Knight
#Go
#Greater
#Learn
#Things
#Us
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
#Believe
#Day
#The Right Thing
#Tomorrow
People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.
- Bobby Knight
#Bad
#Change
#Good
#People Change
#People
Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
- Bobby Knight
#Four
#Mental Toughness
#Toughness
Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
- Bobby Knight
#Most
#People
#Prepare
#Will
#Win
The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.
- Bobby Knight
#Important
#Key
#Prepare
#Will
#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!
- Bobby Knight
#Earth
#Kiss
#Me
#Time
#Upside Down
You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
- Bobby Knight
#Against
#Basketball
#Game
#Play
#Sports
The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
- Bobby Knight
#Important
#Motivational
#Succeed
#Will
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