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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
BOB KNIGHT

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
BOB KNIGHT

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

The guy had no clue, ... But that was irrelevant. If (UC president Nancy Zimpher) didn't like what s...
BOB KNIGHT

I would have been an absolute moron, an absolute moron, with the things that have been laid down on ...
BOB KNIGHT

We just got our ass beat by a much better team. It happens once in a while. Does every team win ever...
BOB KNIGHT

You tell him to cast long, set the hook hard and not be upset when the fish leaves. Because the next...
BOB KNIGHT

Montana, Colorado, Wyoming. Some damned place,
BOB KNIGHT

We were on the verge of having a really good team. That was my only disappointment,
BOB KNIGHT

Pat has been instrumental in what we've done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I...
BOB KNIGHT

This Event is a good test for any program because there are teams in it every year who compete for t...
BOB KNIGHT

Have you ever heard an admissions director be fired because a kid flunked out of school?
BOB KNIGHT

I don't want to bust my [expletive] all the time and have it turned over to somebody who has no idea...
BOB KNIGHT

I like Huggins a lot, ... and I respect him as a basketball coach. Make sure you write that.
BOB KNIGHT

... absolutely, totally untrue
BOB KNIGHT

Son, my name isn't Knight to you, it's coach Knight or it's Mr. Knight. I don't call people by their...
BOB KNIGHT

When you've got a team in a position to stick the knife in the heart, you've got to be able to do it...
BOB KNIGHT

Tucker is impressive without his basketball skills because he's one of those guys that makes other p...
BOB KNIGHT

I think from the time freshmen first started playing, I think freshmen have had an impact each year ...
BOB KNIGHT

Aldridge is the best center in America.
BOB KNIGHT

I hope that thing is on the way to a full mend.
BOB KNIGHT

We're going to be successful one way or the other. We're going to give it one more year in Topeka. I...
BOB KNIGHT

(Martin) Zeno and (Michael) Prince are handling the ball and had nine turnovers between them.
BOB KNIGHT

We brought the game back to a point and sometimes when things get going your way, they start to get ...
BOB KNIGHT

They impress me as much as any team I have seen in this league. We made a lot of mistakes, but most ...
BOB KNIGHT

We have really harped on trying to play every possession, trying to play for 40 minutes. I think we ...
BOB KNIGHT

South central Kansas will be left out of the mix.
BOB KNIGHT

We get into too many situations that we should avoid with the ball. Somehow we need to develop a sec...
BOB KNIGHT

He said he didn't feel like he was helping the team, and he didn't want to play anymore.
BOB KNIGHT

Now that's been our problem. Our problem has been when that happens to us, we haven't been able to g...
BOB KNIGHT

In other words, any kid who's not sure about who he is, he's fair game to try to persuade to have sa...
BOB KNIGHT

My mistake was I stayed there too long,
BOB KNIGHT

And that is absolutely, totally untrue,
BOB KNIGHT

I'm not shopping this idea, ... All I'm doing is, if people express interest in it, I'm explaining o...
BOB KNIGHT

You know, we taught you how to play basketball and baseball, and now you're teaching us how to make ...
BOB KNIGHT

He said he didn't feel like he was helping the team and he didn't want to play anymore. I told him I...
BOB KNIGHT

This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, ... I guarantee you, if...
BOB KNIGHT

We've been a team that's really struggled all year. And the struggles haven't stopped.
BOB KNIGHT

We turned the ball over way too much. We need to be more clever with the ball.
BOB KNIGHT

This was the best team we've beaten this year.
BOB KNIGHT

First time I met Brand, I said, 'This is not gonna be good.' I saw who I was working for. I didn't t...
BOB KNIGHT

Hey, what's up, Knight?
BOB KNIGHT

When you've got a kid that hits five 3s, that makes things a lot better against the zone.
BOB KNIGHT

It is a friendly competition among builders. Awards don't increase the price of the homes, but we do...
BOB KNIGHT

They're big, they go after the ball, they're very aggressive. You know, Aldridge is the best center ...
BOB KNIGHT

Parcells and I have learned a lot of things during a lot of years since we first met. But being grac...
BOB KNIGHT

I wish I had players like you.
BOB KNIGHT

I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a ch...
BOB KNIGHT

Marsha has done a great job with her teams over her entire career at Texas Tech. Her teams have set ...
BOB KNIGHT

I'm not a great positive thinker. By that I mean I prepare for things that can go wrong. In golf, if...
BOB KNIGHT

We just never really were able to do very much with them. It's a simple thing. They're a much better...
BOB KNIGHT

I think we had an effort, but I don't think we played very well. If you're not scoring and not getti...
BOB KNIGHT

Texas impressed me as being as good as any team I've seen play in this league. We made a lot of mist...
BOB KNIGHT

We just got our (butt) beat by a much better team, sometimes that happens. We made a lot of mistakes...
BOB KNIGHT

It was as good an individual performance, particularly under pressure, I've had as a coach. This was...
BOB KNIGHT

Teams in the middle of the pack are going to have to win six, seven games in a row to even be consid...
BOB KNIGHT

At the half, I felt like we played well enough to stay in the game. I thought we were going to come ...
BOB KNIGHT

We wanted to really double up on Jones. They reacted really well to it. We really didn't rotate well...
BOB KNIGHT

I have always thought that you start out the season trying to win the national championship. When th...
BOB KNIGHT

The state clearly could use another $100 to $150 million a year in revenue and I don't think there's...
BOB KNIGHT

It's the idea that well, maybe people aren't born a particular biological sex, or they are but that ...
BOB KNIGHT

It's a tough thing for Baylor to have to start out playing a game like this. Right off the bat, they...
BOB KNIGHT

That's been our problem and when it happens to us we have not been able to counter it, and tonight w...
BOB KNIGHT

I will tell you, you have some formidable infrastructure strengths, with turnpike numbers beyond wha...
BOB KNIGHT

[March 21, pot shot: What ex-Indiana coach Bob Knight took at current Hoosiers head man Mike Davis, ...
BOB KNIGHT

America has the greatest reputation in the world for helping others whenever and wherever disaster s...
BOB KNIGHT

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
BOBBY KNIGHT

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
BOBBY KNIGHT There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.
TED KNIGHT Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy.
TED KNIGHT

I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. We...
BOBBY KNIGHT I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'...
WAYNE KNIGHT As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly e...
DAMON KNIGHT Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.
DAMON KNIGHT You may stifle your creativity by learning too much about processes that should be spontaneous and a...
DAMON KNIGHT There are 36 ways to tell this story. And all of them are disgusting.
DAMON KNIGHT One of the great rewards of a writer's life is that it lets you read all the books you want to w...
DAMON KNIGHT I'm passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin' to is gonn...
SUGE KNIGHT

If we want the best pitcher, let's get Bobby Feller. If want the best football player, let's...
BOBBY KNIGHT Being a Brady comes with it's pleasures and its baggage. I'm not one given to a lack of priv...
CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT The Brady Bunch is a live action modern fairytale of family. In this context it's less odd that ...
CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
PHILIP KNIGHT

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.
RAY KNIGHT

Anybody who accepts mediocrity -- in school, on the job, in life -- is a person who compromises, and...
CHARLES KNIGHT

If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well...
BOBBY KNIGHT

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
BOBBY KNIGHT

The key is not the "will to win" . . . everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is ...
BOBBY KNIGHT

Play by the rules, but be ferocious.
PHIL KNIGHT

Everybody has an opportunity in America. I don't care if guys whine and complain about this or t...
BOBBY KNIGHT Back in the day, if you did any commercials or were affiliated with a company you were a sellout. No...
JORDAN KNIGHT

As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of...
BOBBY KNIGHT

We wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a ...
PHIL KNIGHT

Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international...
PHIL KNIGHT

When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, a...
BOBBY KNIGHT

I watched the guy that hits a home run, and he comes across the plate and he points skyward, like th...
BOBBY KNIGHT

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
BOBBY KNIGHT There's an appreciation of the whole picture of life as opposed to just ambition and circumstanc...
WAYNE KNIGHT

The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is impor...
BOBBY KNIGHT

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
BOBBY KNIGHT

There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and ...
PHIL KNIGHT In preschool, I would plan out my show-and-tell every week to be funny and exciting. Then in first g...
MAXIM KNIGHT Television is much better crafted today then in the 70s. The content is less positive but I'm on...
CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT One of the hardest aspects of this protracted public persona is not knowing others as well as they f...
CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT

We could see that he was a charismatic guy who jumps over the moon and is very competitive, but nobo...
PHIL KNIGHT A boss in essence is every woman willing to try, push, succeed, fail but ultimately do the work in h...
JAHA KNIGHT I'm a people lover. I love interacting with different people as I meet them, and I think people ...
GLADYS KNIGHT

My dad was a very quiet person, and unbelievably tough. But my grandmother gave me my first look at ...
BOBBY KNIGHT

I don't understand the NBA in that, each time they bring in a one-and-done kid, they have to rel...
BOBBY KNIGHT I don't usually get star struck, but I met Sir Paul McCartney randomly on Sunset Boulevard a few...
STERLING KNIGHT One day I woke up with an atrocious hangover, and it hurt so badly that I told myself, 'It's...
JORDAN KNIGHT I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge ...
WAYNE KNIGHT As far as anybody in the rap game ever tryin' to assassinate my character, that's impossible...
SUGE KNIGHT

I've always felt that, you know, the Almighty has a lot of things to do other than help my baske...
BOBBY KNIGHT

I think a great idea would be involving our various military services along the border all the way f...
BOBBY KNIGHT

Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player...
PHIL KNIGHT Would you believe that Sammy Davis, Jr. taught me how to sing a ballad? 'You can be in an arena,...
GLADYS KNIGHT I think if you stop bad habits, and you stop long enough, you develop good habits.
JORDAN KNIGHT Be realistic with your expectations. I'd really like to cuddle a unicorn, but it aint going to happe...
INDIA KNIGHT

I enjoyed needling the press. If I didn't enjoy it, I wouldn't have done it. Writers have ra...
BOBBY KNIGHT

Harry Truman, with what he did in dropping and having the guts to drop the bomb in 1944, saved - sav...
BOBBY KNIGHT You've got to stop whipping a dead horse sometime.
JIM KNIGHT This may be impossible for you to believe," Colt said in a hushed voice, "but as recently as last ye...
KARSTEN KNIGHT

If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most...
BOBBY KNIGHT

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

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.
RAY KNIGHT The best blush to use is laughter. It puts roses in your cheeks and in your soul.
LINDA KNIGHT I like Biggie. Like 'Pac, he was one of the best rappers in the business. Why would I try to do ...
SUGE KNIGHT

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

The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.
BOBBY KNIGHT I'm comfortable singing jazz. The only thing I was concerned about is that everybody, even in ja...
GLADYS KNIGHT Joe has tremendous upside and provides our franchise with a player whose talents are worthy of All-S...
BILLY KNIGHT

I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public ...
PHIL KNIGHT These are good tactics and good results. No one seems particularly interested in taking Macquarie's ...
ANGELA KNIGHT I always kind of thought I want to be a good person, I want to be right to my fellow men and love th...
GLADYS KNIGHT Joe has tremendous upside. We feel we have one of the best up-and-coming rosters in the league.
BILLY KNIGHT Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.
SHIRLEY KNIGHT Openness works like the proverbial sunshine.
JONATHAN KNIGHT I think everybody had a good rhythm tonight. We wanted to continue to attack the basket. Sometimes w...
BREVIN KNIGHT

I was a history and government major at Ohio State University, and I've spent a lot of time just...
BOBBY KNIGHT I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time ...
SUGE KNIGHT

We need a Donald Trump more than we've ever needed anybody since George Washington.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Major League Baseball has the best idea of all. Three years before they'll take a kid out of col...
BOBBY KNIGHT For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life - it's what helps you survive.
SUGE KNIGHT

We are providing this extra level of detail about the recent property sales to give our shareholders...
CHARLES KNIGHT The changing economic situation, the changing global market means it is understandable that employer...
JIM KNIGHT Everyone showed up. It was so energizing and uplifting. The fact they were here made that decision.
DAVID KNIGHT They are similar to the beacons on Petaluma Hill Road, and are meant to bring attention that there i...
DAVE KNIGHT Only you can make this right. Show me, not with words, but with action, that this is what you want a...
KELLY KNIGHT I cannot do this to myself anymore. Either I'm in or I'm not but I will not feel like I'm Nothing wh...
KELLY KNIGHT What turns an honest, good-looking guy like you into a theif?"
Scott couldn't help but smirk. ...
GEOFFREY KNIGHT Sylvia Day spins a gorgeous adventure in ANGELA KNIGHT It's driven by economics now. This is a trend, not a fad.
DAVID KNIGHT

I want to say to you Indiana people that I owe you a big, big debt of gratitude because nowhere in t...
BOBBY KNIGHT [Texas Tech athletic director] Gerald Myers called me in and said they didn't want me to leave, they...
PAT KNIGHT He's got it made here,
PAT KNIGHT It's truly an honor to carry on my dad's legacy here at Texas Tech.
PAT KNIGHT I know he wants the record for sure, after that I don't know,
PAT KNIGHT I'm at a point where probably in the next couple of years I'm gonna go coach football. It's somethin...
PAT KNIGHT We just watched it again on tape. You can tell they were trying to foul him, but they're not getting...
PAT KNIGHT

I'm Phil Knight, and I don't believe in advertising.
PHIL KNIGHT

Hard work is critical, a good team is essential, brains and determination are invaluable, but luck m...
PHIL KNIGHT

But that’s the nature of money. Whether you have it or not, whether you want it or not, whether yo...
PHIL KNIGHT

I was a linear thinker, and according to Zen linear thinking is nothing but a delusion, one of the m...
PHIL KNIGHT

Like it or not, life is a game.
PHIL KNIGHT

Life is growth. You grow or you die.
PHIL KNIGHT

When you see only problems, you’re not seeing clearly.
PHIL KNIGHT

I thought back on my running career at Oregon. I’d competed with, and against, men far better, fas...
PHIL KNIGHT

I’d tell men and women in their midtwenties not to settle for a job or a profession or even a care...
PHIL KNIGHT I?m pleased with the pitching performance. We did a nice job of hitting our spots.
ALAN KNIGHT We hit it well, but we ought to hit with a pitcher throwing with that kind of speed on the mound.
ALAN KNIGHT The last two days have been a helter-skelter of emotions. It is sad that the whale died, but we real...
ALAN KNIGHT While we received comments from major CSR and SRI groups--for whom this is an important issue--we di...
ALAN KNIGHT The ground was the key. Last time he ran at Sandown we declared him on good to firm but it rained al...
ALAN KNIGHT Basically this is probably the right thing to happen in the end. If it had continued in this way, we...
ALAN KNIGHT It is a sad end to a very long day.
ALAN KNIGHT Then we could all afford them. To install a generator or solar panel today you need specialist help....
ALAN KNIGHT I'm not really in touch with those 'Seinfeld' lads except Jason Alexander.
WAYNE KNIGHT What happens, I think, is especially for comic effect you find something about yourself that you don...
WAYNE KNIGHT Satan is a slick character. To me, he's actually very appealing. He's not scary. That's kind of how ...
SCARLETT KNIGHT Scale matters and global change is the sum of the actions that take place on national, regional and ...
GREGORY KNIGHT The collective impact of power plants is their contribution to greenhouse gases which would cause wa...
GREGORY KNIGHT In the 1960s, everyone said that improving environmental quality would cost a great many jobs. By th...
GREGORY KNIGHT

And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I ...
BOBBY KNIGHT We've really hit an inflection point where people have brought instant messaging into the workplace ...
DAVID KNIGHT

The transition from a CEO founder to a new manager is a very, very difficult one.
PHIL KNIGHT I didn't have any bridesmaids. Instead, one friend did my hair, another did my makeup, and a thi...
KELTIE KNIGHT Jackie patted her on the shoulder, "you know what you need?"
Ash peeked out from between her fi...
KARSTEN KNIGHT It's well known by now that I had a special need to get Maureen's goat when ever the opportu...
CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT All of a sudden there was noise and wind.
MOSES KNIGHT I'm definitely a romantic comedy dude because I'm a big romantic at heart. I'm a softy, ...
STERLING KNIGHT Shell has saved money so it has a responsibility to help right the wrong of leaving individual holde...
ANGELA KNIGHT The exchange is saying to shareholders, 'Stick with us, you get the money. Why take an offer from an...
ANGELA KNIGHT These figures tell the story of an exciting and exhausting three months, when investment in stocks a...
ANGELA KNIGHT I think since they started doing this, it started as an idea ten years ago we have received almost 8...
ANGELA KNIGHT Ask a few questions. Just because it's got a good name and seems to be rising all the time doesn't m...
ANGELA KNIGHT I do think that one of the things the investors must do is ask the questions -- they have a responsi...
ANGELA KNIGHT It's a victory for those who refused the offer because it would leave them with a huge tax bill.
ANGELA KNIGHT There is no reason why Shell could not have done this at the start and if they had, then it could ha...
ANGELA KNIGHT They've gone for someone they know,
ANGELA KNIGHT

From my standpoint, I would make it very difficult on the NBA to even have any association with coll...
BOBBY KNIGHT

They're a very good basketball team. We're not a very good basketball team.

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