Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
BOBBY KNIGHTBasketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Positive wish: ‘The sun will come out tomorrow.’ Negative reality: ‘Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.
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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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My overall point is that ‘one and dones’ are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I apologize.
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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 believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
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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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I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
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And I guarantee you, I’m a better athlete than any f***g body writing. To this day, they don’t want to play tennis with me. The don’t want to play me in golf. They don’t want to f***g run with me
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I’ve never felt my job was to win basketball games – rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.
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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.
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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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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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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought… about potential pitfalls.
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I’m not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn’t have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.
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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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Superiority and success doesn’t favor good effort or self-esteem… The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.
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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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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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Offense is not equal opportunity
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I tell you what really fries my ass. When somebody gets on me for the way I look. Fat. Overweight. Well, I may be overweight. But I’m sure not fat.
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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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