Famous Quotes

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

Bobby Knight on Sports

More quotes about Sports

• "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

  Michael Jordan on Sports

• "It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling."

  Mark Twain on Sports

• "Golf is a good walk spoiled."

  Mark Twain on Sports

• "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

  Hunter S. Thompson on Sports

• "Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."

  Henry David Thoreau on Sports

More quotes by Bobby Knight

• "People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad."

• "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."

• "I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb."

• "The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare."

• "I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach."