A.N. Knight Quotes

I was an alcoholic, for sure. It became a problem steadily over the course of six years.

In the long run all producers are forced to use the most efficient methods or give place to others who do.

If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it's always people dying of violence or stray bullets.

Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.

Positive wish: 'The sun will come out tomorrow.' Negative reality: 'Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.

Perception can be changed

Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.

I still get real nervous when I go in front of more than two people.

You only live once and you don't know it because of the everyday activities, but if you walk around knowing you only have one time on this planet, you'll make a whole lot more of it.

Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change.

Market competition is the only form of organization which can afford a large measure of freedom to the individual.

What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots

In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.

Everybody hears, but few listen.

You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.

Black Poets should live--not leap From steel bridges, like the white boys do.

As his team prepares, a coach's entire being must be concentrated on winning games.

I truly believe the American consumer doesn’t want to buy products made under abusive conditions.

Sociology isthescience of talk, and there is onlyone law in sociology. Bad talk drives out good.

Since politics — until recently — has been a man’s world, men, as a whole are responsible for its corruption.

I don't care about how many times somebody recognizes my face.

I don't regret any decisions I've made in my life.

Players must be able to carry out simple instructions from the bench to the court. If they can't, then they can't play

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

No one can be a replacement for another person. That is why, farewells are always difficult.

Defense is all about helping. No one can guard a good dribbler, You have to walk kids through how to help and then how to help the helper

Perform drills that force your players to think

Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet.

There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.

A quick way for any player to make himself better is to think about what he himself doesn't like to play against

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

I don't really look at myself as a role model. And I just am the way I am and if people want to look up to me, they do. By no means do I like to give a negative image either.

I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.

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

The truth seems . . . to be that in the ultimate and essential problem the economic factor is relatively superficial and unimportant.

Offense is not equal opportunity

I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender

A true friend to me is someone who will be there when the chips are down.

Competitive drills enhance quickness.

Costs merely register competing attractions.

There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made.

I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.

Superiority and success doesn't favor good effort or self-esteem... The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.

It is better to anticipate than to react.

Practice structure determines success.

Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.

If Islam was to be saved, it would be saved by the crazy ones.

Be realistic with your expectations. I'd really like to cuddle a unicorn, but it aint going to happen.

The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends.

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