I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
BOBBY KNIGHTI was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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We 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?
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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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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So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, ‘He’s saying God screwed the pitcher.
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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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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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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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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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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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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’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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