I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
BOBBY KNIGHTAs 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
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I also believe that when something negative comes out about you in the media, that’s only one person’s opinion. These guys sometimes believe they’ve been ordained from on high to give the general opinion of the populace, and that just isn’t the case.
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I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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I’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
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Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that’s going to happen, let’s make it happen.
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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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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.
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven’t been as well taught.
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I don’t intend to retire.
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I’d probably be better off without trying to satisfy me, with my sense of humor. There are things that I have said that are funny to me, but they weren’t to somebody in the press. So that hasn’t worked to my benefit.
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