Bobby Knight Quotes

I don't really rate press conferences. It's not as though I leave the room fist-pumping my way down the corridor after a good one.

Actors should never give interviews.

I'm not afraid of the media. I think I know how to handle them because I've been around them enough.

I'm not that great with press sometimes.

I think for more than half of my career, I have refrained from talking to the media.

If there were rankings for press conferences, I wouldn't have to worry about dropping out of the top five, I hope.

I get along fine with the press.

Talking to the press is not always good.

For me the most important is on the pitch, I don't like too much speaking in the press. I will do the minimum. I will do it because I have to do it.

As a footballer, it can be enjoyable to do a proper interview where you trust the journalist to reproduce your thoughts.

I don't know anything about press conferences." "Oh, just Google it. I'm sure someone's written an article on holding a successful one. I mean, if the President can manage it, I'm sure you can. He looks like he can barely tie his shoes without help.

I do public appearances. I'm bluff, hearty, goofy. I wear loud clothes, and I read the funny bits. I occasionally get taken to task for one thing or another, and I acknowledge my fault, my flaw, my failure, and I move on.

I think it's a brilliant tool to have, not only to have a sense of humor, but to be able to use humor to help one navigate life, and I tend not to be that type of person. I wish I were.

Press conferences are good. I have my own philosophy about press conferences. I usually think that when they don't like the movie, they ask about other things.

At school I was very shy. I wasn't funny really.

I engage with a lot of journalists, some of them have history and some of them don't, that's not my concern. My concern is to make sure I represent the views I want to represent on those shows.

Most athletes are media shy. They keep to themselves and to their training. I'm not saying it is absolutely necessary for them to come out and face the cameras with confidence, but if they do, it will only help them. They will find themselves closer to their fans and will also get their word across more effectively.

I'm envious of people that can handle the press. No matter what I say or how articulately I say it, it always comes back to the same issues. And it's getting kind of old.

I'm totally not media shy and do interviews all the time and go to events and totally play along and actually enjoy talking to journalists most of the time.

In my first company, Seer Technologies, where I was chief technology officer, we shied away from the media. We watched every word and were guarded in front of journalists.

Every time I talk to the press, I put my foot in my mouth.

Doing the press has become as much of a job as getting in front of the camera. You have to avoid burnout, avoid saying anything stupid, but still come across as yourself.

In an ideal world, everybody would find it easy to talk to the press... but not everybody is so excited.

For 'Cinderella,' I did six weeks of those interviews, where you get asked the same eight questions. If you're not capable of doing that gracefully, then don't do it.

The more media interviews you do, the less any one interaction matters.