I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
BOBBY KNIGHTWe don’t want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What’s going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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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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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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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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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven’t called walking for 20 years, now you don’t know what it is. When you call walking, you’re about half right.
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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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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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Offense at Indiana is not equal opportunity. Those players who shoot best are going to shoot most. It is important that every player know his offensive limitations. It is also important that a player know who the best shooter is on the team.
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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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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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