Bobby Knight Quotes

Washington newspaper men know everything.

In any profession, whether it's teachers or doctors or lawyers, the more we say we're not going to evaluate those people on the merits, I think that's when the profession goes into decline.

I always wanted to be part of the media. I knew I wanted to work as a journalist.

Have you noticed how difficult it is just to get along in the world? If you're no good at all in your job, people treat you badly and eventually you will be unemployed. And if you're a little better than competent, everyone expects miracles from you, every single time. Like most of life, it's a no-win situation. And if you dare to mention it, no matter how creatively you phrase your complaints, you are shunned as a whiner.

Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description.

It's just the way I'm made. I do feel confident in what I do. It doesn't always work out 100% of the time, but generally I think I can do it quite well. But the other part of my job is doing the press and stuff. And I'm rubbish at that. I'm really not good at that at all - this quite important part of what I do.

Entertainment is like any other major industry; it's cold, big business. The business end wants to know one thing: Can you do the job? If you can, you're in, you're made; if you can't, you're out.

All America loses when any person is denied or forced out of a job because of sexual orientation. Being gay, the last time I thought about it, seemed to have nothing to do with the ability to read a balance book, fix a broken bone, or change a spark plug.

I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.

Every time you run a 35mm print, it picks up scratches. It picks up dirt. Sometimes it breaks, and you have to re-splice it. You lose frames. This doesn't happen with digital or Blu-ray. I think that's great. Because I love the new media.

Everyone who went to college and especially people working in media seem to know at least one person from Shaker Heights. There's just something about that place that made people go to the coast.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

For the benefit of those of you who have real jobs and are not involved in the news business, I should first explain that . . .

In every operation there is an above the line and a below the line. Above the line is what you do by the book. Below the line is how you do the job.

Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical skill combined.

I do not mean to be the slightest bit critical of TV newspeople, who do a superb job, considering that they operate under severe time constraints and have the intellectual depth of hamsters. But TV news can only present the "bare bones" of a story; it takes a newspaper, with its capability to present vast amounts of information, to render the story truly boring.

I want to do the best job I can.

And ICE and Border Patrol officers will be allowed to do their jobs the way their jobs are supposed to be done.

Either an executive can do his job or he can't.

David Carr was one of the most gifted journalists who has ever worked at The New York Times.

When we played the back end of a horse we always knew that if we worked hard and did a good job we could become the front end.

Based on current surveys of public opinion in the United States, it turns out that the majority of Americans think I've done a pretty good job.

I'm human -- all I do is try to do my job. When I don't do it, the way it happened today, it's out of my control. He put the ball in play and it happened to find a hole. I wish I could take it back, but I can't. You move on.

I'm afraid because some police are way out of control. My true feeling with police is this: If they do their job, there's no problem.

Just because it's a bad job doesn't mean I need to do it badly.