Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
BOBBY KNIGHTI’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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You see we’ve got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he’s still coaching. I really don’t understand that.
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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You can’t imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, “God, you treat those assholes like I’d like to treat them.” And my question is, “Then why don’t you?”.
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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.
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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought… about potential pitfalls.
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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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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.
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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt that this word is the most ill-defined in all of our language.
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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It’s conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.
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When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass.
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