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Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
This Buckeye might be second (only to Woody) on the list of Buckeyes with the most famous quotes:
“Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.”
“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."
"All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things."
"Everybody hears, but few listen."
"I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb."
"Pat has been instrumental in what we've done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we've done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that's Pat. No one would come close to being able to continue to build on what we've done here (Texas tech) so far like he will."
"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, not just the athletes."
"If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well as anybody can. I would just cheat, get some money from a lot of people around Indianapolis who want to run the operation that way, and just go out and get the best basketball players I can. Then we'd beat everybody."
"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."
"We just got our ass beat by a much better team. It happens once in a while. Does every team win every game?"
"I don't think I have ever been out of control."
"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."
"Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature."
"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."
"I tell you what really fries my ass. When somebody gets on me for the way I look. Fat. Overweight. Well, I may be overweight. But I'm sure not fat. And I guarantee you, I'm a better athlete than any @#%$ body writing. To this day, they don't want to play tennis with me. The don't want to play me in golf. They don't want to @#%$ run with me"
"You remember when you were a kid growing up, and believed in Santa Claus? There's not much difference between Santa Claus and me today, you know. We're two overweight lovable guys that kids really enjoy."
"I don't intend to retire."
"I fortunately have never worried about irritating people."
"A player enters the Hall of Fame on his ability. A coach enters on the ability of his players."
"Discipline: doing what you have to do, and doing it as well as you possibly can, and doing it that way all the time."
"For me to get an award from the press, I know there's been no favoritism."
"Would it help you if I went back out and came back in walking on my hands or something?"
"In my entire adult life, I've never used the expression 'game face.' I have no idea what that means or what you're supposed to do."
"God couldn't care less if we win or not. He is not going to parachute in through the roof of this building and score when we need points."
"Through testing of Big Ten officials it is found that 79 percent of them are not capable of counting correctly"
"I've had all the challenges I need in my lifetime. I'd rather play against a really bad team"
"The most important records we should keep are doctors' records. Like, this past month, Dr. Jones performed 19 operations, 11 lived, four died and four are hanging in there. I'm not sure my record or any other coach's record is all that important."
"That kind (trash talking) of from the players reflects on the entire operation of the team. I'd rather have players concentrating on what we're going to do than on some clever, wiseass thing to say to somebody else."
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...s-top-20-quotes-as-a-college-basketball-coach
http://www.knight880.com/special/stories/quotes.shtml
“Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.”
“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."
"All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things."
"Everybody hears, but few listen."
"I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb."
"Pat has been instrumental in what we've done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we've done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that's Pat. No one would come close to being able to continue to build on what we've done here (Texas tech) so far like he will."
"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, not just the athletes."
"If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well as anybody can. I would just cheat, get some money from a lot of people around Indianapolis who want to run the operation that way, and just go out and get the best basketball players I can. Then we'd beat everybody."
"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."
"We just got our ass beat by a much better team. It happens once in a while. Does every team win every game?"
"I don't think I have ever been out of control."
"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."
"Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature."
"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."
"I tell you what really fries my ass. When somebody gets on me for the way I look. Fat. Overweight. Well, I may be overweight. But I'm sure not fat. And I guarantee you, I'm a better athlete than any @#%$ body writing. To this day, they don't want to play tennis with me. The don't want to play me in golf. They don't want to @#%$ run with me"
"You remember when you were a kid growing up, and believed in Santa Claus? There's not much difference between Santa Claus and me today, you know. We're two overweight lovable guys that kids really enjoy."
"I don't intend to retire."
"I fortunately have never worried about irritating people."
"A player enters the Hall of Fame on his ability. A coach enters on the ability of his players."
"Discipline: doing what you have to do, and doing it as well as you possibly can, and doing it that way all the time."
"For me to get an award from the press, I know there's been no favoritism."
"Would it help you if I went back out and came back in walking on my hands or something?"
"In my entire adult life, I've never used the expression 'game face.' I have no idea what that means or what you're supposed to do."
"God couldn't care less if we win or not. He is not going to parachute in through the roof of this building and score when we need points."
"Through testing of Big Ten officials it is found that 79 percent of them are not capable of counting correctly"
"I've had all the challenges I need in my lifetime. I'd rather play against a really bad team"
"The most important records we should keep are doctors' records. Like, this past month, Dr. Jones performed 19 operations, 11 lived, four died and four are hanging in there. I'm not sure my record or any other coach's record is all that important."
"That kind (trash talking) of from the players reflects on the entire operation of the team. I'd rather have players concentrating on what we're going to do than on some clever, wiseass thing to say to somebody else."
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...s-top-20-quotes-as-a-college-basketball-coach
http://www.knight880.com/special/stories/quotes.shtml
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Bobby Knight is a guy that everyone has an opinion on, you either like him or you don't. I like him and always thought of him as the Woody Hayes of basketball. Both were: great coaches, won national championships, were very knowledgeable on military history, loyal to their players (and always looked out for their best interests), always put academics up there with athletics, liked (and appreciated) much more by their players after they graduated, didn't take any shit from anyone (especially the media), didn't really like a lot of the reporters, and always spoke their mind. And most of all they both had a dictatorial (and very inflexible) style of coaching which worked well much better in the their early years of coaching. Later on kids were changing and they didn't change with them; the kids just didn't respond (or rebelled against) that style and recruiting became a more difficult. In the end both coaches' downfall was physical abuse against a player and both were basically fired from the institution that they had been at for over a quarter of a century.
Bobby Knight was born and raised in Orville Ohio, went to Ohio State on a basketball scholarship, was on the greatest team(s) in Ohio State basketball history, and helped them (although Lucas and Havlicek did much more) win Ohio State's only basketball National Championship. He went on to be one of the greatest college basketball coaches of all time and despite all his controversial actions he never disrespected THE Ohio State University. Also, after graduation he was one of Fred Taylor's biggest supporters.
Frank Truitt (center) with Bob Knight (left) and John Havlicek (right) in 2010 at the 50th Anniversary Celebration of Ohio State's 1960 NCAA Championship Team. For those that don't remember Frank Truitt was an assistant coach on that team. Note: the score is in the upper right hand corner.
The 1960 Ohio State University Mens Basketball Team was honored at halftime on January 30, 2010. Every member of the 1960 NCAA championship team, gathered for a 50-year reunion this weekend. Fred Taylor was honored with great words about their coach, Fred Taylor. Knight said: "Where there's a great painting, there's a great painter. Where there's a great and unique building, there's a great architect. Where there's a great team, there's a great coach. No team ever won a national championship with a better coach than Fred Taylor,"
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maximumblitz
Buckeye Samurai of Big League Blitzkreig
"When you win a game, you riot. When you lose a game, you riot. When spring comes, you riot. African-American Heritage Festival weekend, you riot .... it's fun to flip cars, to really have absolute drunken orgies."
Karen Holbrook, ex-president of THE Ohio State University, commenting on school spirit.
I think she wins the recorded statement derby, over Gordon Gee.
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2007/08/30/riots.ART_ART_08-30-07_A1_447OMJ6.html
Karen Holbrook, ex-president of THE Ohio State University, commenting on school spirit.
I think she wins the recorded statement derby, over Gordon Gee.
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2007/08/30/riots.ART_ART_08-30-07_A1_447OMJ6.html
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OSUK
Sometimes lucid, mostly confused
2 variations of the same idea coming from Jim Tressel:
"The goal is to end every drive with a kick."
"The punt is the most important play in football."
Bo on what Woody said to him after Michigan beat Ohio State in 1969: "Damn you, Bo. You will never win another game as big as that one." Bo said with a chuckle, "The old man was right. I never did."
Bonus: E Gordon Gee proclaiming Ohio State's greatest victory came in a tie to Michigan. (If Dr. Gee weren't a real person, some great fictional writer would have to conjure him)
Bonus plus: Gee: "The fathers (at Notre Dame) are holy on Sunday, and holy hell the rest of the week."
"The goal is to end every drive with a kick."
"The punt is the most important play in football."
Bo on what Woody said to him after Michigan beat Ohio State in 1969: "Damn you, Bo. You will never win another game as big as that one." Bo said with a chuckle, "The old man was right. I never did."
Bonus: E Gordon Gee proclaiming Ohio State's greatest victory came in a tie to Michigan. (If Dr. Gee weren't a real person, some great fictional writer would have to conjure him)
Bonus plus: Gee: "The fathers (at Notre Dame) are holy on Sunday, and holy hell the rest of the week."
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