I’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
BOBBY KNIGHTBasketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I’ve always been too confrontational, especially when I know I’m right.
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I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
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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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When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was ‘It will be O.K.’ I would wonder, ‘How the hell is it going to be O.K.?’ The worst word in the English language is ‘hope.’
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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I don’t intend to retire.
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I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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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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All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average.
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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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