March Madness is a great time of year. This month we will share some blogs related to basketball, teaching and students-athletes. We hope you enjoy!
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- “Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.”
- “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!”
- “People want national championship banners. People want to talk about Indiana being competitive. How do we get there? We don’t get there with milk and cookies.”
- “Everybody hears, but few listen.”
- “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.”
- “Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.”
- “I don’t think I have ever been out of control.”
- “We just got our ass beat by a much better team. It happens once in a while. Does every team win every game?”
- “Son, my name isn’t Knight to you, it’s Coach Knight or it’s Mr. Knight. I don’t call people by their last name and neither should you.”
- “If the NBA was on channel five and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel four, I’d watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.”
- “The key is not the ‘will to win’…everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.”
- “You don’t play against opponents; you play against the game of basketball.”
- “If I were in charge I’d drug test all you sons of b****es [Indiana University students], not just the athletes.”
- “I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.”
- “Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try
is in its own way success.” - “All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.”
- “I’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.”
- “Discipline: doing what you have to do, and doing it as well as you possibly
can, and doing it that way all the time.” - “I want a persistent player, not the consistent player. I want a team that
is persistent, unyielding, enduring, staying with something despite
obstacles.” - “There isn’t anything, except for my family, that I think about more than I
do basketball.” - “There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I’ve always been too confrontational, especially when I know I’m right.”
- “A motivator isn’t always the guy who just pats you on the ass. He’s the guy
who kicks you in the ass occasionally.” - “I once told a guy I would like to have carved on my tombstone, ‘He was
honest, and he didn’t kiss anybody’s ass.'” -
“I’m an unemployed teacher right now and I’m looking for a place to teach.”
- “I don’t intend to retire.”
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