Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
BOBBY KNIGHTI think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
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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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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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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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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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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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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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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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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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I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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I don’t intend to retire.
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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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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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BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
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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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This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they’ll get rid of me, too.
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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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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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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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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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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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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 would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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