People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
BOBBY KNIGHTI don’t intend to retire.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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As I’ve said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators – not recently – fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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Offense is not equal opportunity
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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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 as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions that are a lot alike. There aren’t a hell of a lot of really good coaches or writers.
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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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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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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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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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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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Pat has been instrumental in what we’ve done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we’ve done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that’s Pat.
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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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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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My definition isas follows: 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it it that way all the time.
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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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Practice structure determines success.
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I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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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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Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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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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I don’t intend to retire.
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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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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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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