A.N. Knight Quotes

I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.

Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.

Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.

Well, I never danced with the 'Pips' - they didn't let me dance!

When teachers stop learning, so do students.

Being in a relationship grounds you. You feel a sense of home.

Just going on the road and entertaining the fans, that's amazing.

There's this idea that when you turn 40, you automatically go to adult contemporary heaven, but I want to try and challenge that.

Social support is everything.

If you've got the chops, people these days are more accepting of you.

I don't understand anorexia; I'm too greedy to ever not eat I just can't do it.

Allah is too big and open for my deen to be small and closed.

I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.

I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell.

If you've read something brilliant, it's good. It's good to look out the window and see what's going on in the world.

Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.

There are more riddles in a stone than in a philosopher's head

The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices

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 don't think I have ever been out of control.

Conflicting economic interest is relatively unimportant as a cause of war.

When you pay your money to see me, I want you to have the best concert you can have from me.

The only consistency is hostility toward Western religion.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

The other death for an actor is comparing yourself to other people: Forget someone else's path. Concentrate on your path. Otherwise, you get lost, and if you don't have joy in the work, forget it.

True stories are always good because they're so odd, and so unlikely.

In terms of how [Allied] looks, it's fantastic and much better than I had hoped because it's so lush and so beautifully executed.

I had the most fun on '3rd Rock'. It was a great show to work on.

Yes, he is a man, so genetically he's engineered to be dense about many things, but he's not stupid.

It rained toads the day the White Council came to town.

A hedge knight must hold tight to his pride. Without it, he was no more than a sellsword

Kings can only use their best tools.

There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.

Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?

I do feel that houses have faces - and feelings too.

Jekyll and Hyde, in particular, is such an important novel in terms of suspense and setting a perfect scene for crime

So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, 'He's saying God screwed the pitcher.

If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.

I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

I have as many good friends in the media as anybody in sports has. It's just that I probably have a hell of a lot more enemies than anybody else.

Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.

The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach

The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.

If I were in charge I'd drug test all you sons of b****es, not just the athletes.

I'm not sure sports writing is an art.

There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions that are a lot alike. There aren't a hell of a lot of really good coaches or writers.

My overall point is that 'one and dones' are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I apologize.

I don't intend to retire.

Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.