Bobby Knight Quotes

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Bobby Knight

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• I grew up in north Norfolk, which certainly used to have an enormous sense of community. There are more and more second homes there now, so I'm not sure how that has damaged it. But where I live in South London, there is a beautiful community; it's the friendliest place I have ever lived, which comes as a surprise to non-Londoners.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Up
  • Live
  • Beautiful

• The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Think
  • Hate
  • Equal

• The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of have this melancholy vibe to it.

  

  Washed Out
  • Kind
  • Quality
  • Melancholy

• I am a huge supporter for cash for caulkers - which allows people to make improvement for energy efficient in their homes. We should do the same for Americans purchasing appliances and computers and for that matter, new air-conditioner and heating units.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • People
  • Energy
  • Air

• Honestly, like, I'm a superfan of the 'New York Times,' but I know nothing about how they put it together, and I really don't care.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Together
  • Care
  • New York

• I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Believe
  • Spirit
  • Eternity

• There have been some good studies done in California with Hispanic parents where in the course of a year, they have changed their entire nutritional intake for the better. The kid becomes, in a sense, the bridge between the educational process and the home.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Good
  • Done
  • Home

• Why am I such a Euro-enthusiast? Because I knew it was an anchor of democracy.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Why
  • Democracy
  • Anchor

• Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Me
  • Sexy
  • Just

• Once I come up with the concept, the rest of the song just comes.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Up
  • Song
  • Rest

• In every living thing there is the desire for love.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Love
  • Desire
  • For Her

• 'We are all acquaintances now'. It goes beyond our personal junk circumstances; a brilliant metaphor for our times.

  

  Irvine Welsh

• Nothing is certain-that is the first lesson.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi

• Prizefighting is short. Get in. Get rich. Get out. But martial arts is for life. It's for life.

  

  Conor McGregor
  • Life

• I'm pretty much on all social media, but Instagram is the coolest, and I use it the most because I take a lot of pictures and I like to post them, but I link them all to each one.

  

  Lexi Thompson
  • Pretty

• You can't expect everyone to love you. I'm not someone who just wants to throw out hate, just because.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Hate

• However much risk we are taking, we can and probably should take more.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Risk

• I usually submit a novel at a certain number of words, and when I've finished working with my editor, the novel is longer than when I submitted it. I need my editor to help me open up the story.

  

  David Bergen
  • Up
  • Help
  • Words

• I'm big on taking the lady out to dinner. We have some candlelight romance every now and then. And our whole family is within a 6-mile radius. It's disgustingly domestic. I'm big on Costco.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Family
  • Dinner
  • Romance

• No Victory Without Suffering.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Suffering
  • Victory

• With a character like a Captain Jack, who can essentially set up these verbal land mines around him, and just keep passing the "absurdity ball" around and the "irreverence ball" around, and keep people guessing and keep people confused, there's great safety in that. Me, myself, personally, I learn from it. It's a real pleasure, and I do need him.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Character
  • Learn
  • Confused

• I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Imagination
  • Never
  • Teacher

• I so enjoy being old because for the first time I don't have to do anything-work, teach, study. I feel very good about myself-and at my age I can say no to anything now if I don't want to do it. What a liberating word.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Study
  • Enjoy
  • Teach

• Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

  

  Bobby Knight