Quotes with knight-errantry

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  • Sir Philip Sidney A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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  • Bob Knight All of us learn to write by the second grade, then most of us go on to other things.
    Bob Knight
    American basketball coach (1940 - )
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  • Bob Knight 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.
    Bob Knight
    American basketball coach (1940 - )
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  • Bob Knight As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
    Bob Knight
    American basketball coach (1940 - )
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  • Charles II For its merit I will knight it, and then it will be Sir-Loin.
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  • Barbara Feldon I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.
    Barbara Feldon
    American actress (1933 - )
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  • Beth Ditto I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too; just different than mine.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Bob Knight 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.
    Bob Knight
    American basketball coach (1940 - )
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  • Bob Knight If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love was on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs even if they were coming in fuzzy.
    Bob Knight
    American basketball coach (1940 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Bobby Knight Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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  • John Ruskin No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Bob Knight People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.
    Bob Knight
    American basketball coach (1940 - )
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Bob Knight The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.
    Bob Knight
    American basketball coach (1940 - )
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  • Bob Knight The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
    Bob Knight
    American basketball coach (1940 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro There is no greater way to ensure that universities remain a hotbed of leftist thought than to guarantee that professors knight their own successors. But that's basically how the Ph.D. system works, with sitting professors approving the work of would-be professors.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex. As long as combat was desirable as the source of honor and glory, the knight had no wish to share it with the commoner, even for the sake of success.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Bob Knight Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.
    Bob Knight
    American basketball coach (1940 - )
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  • Ben Stein When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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