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.
BOBBY KNIGHTI also believe that when something negative comes out about you in the media, that’s only one person’s opinion. These guys sometimes believe they’ve been ordained from on high to give the general opinion of the populace, and that just isn’t the case.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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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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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was ‘It will be O.K.’ I would wonder, ‘How the hell is it going to be O.K.?’ The worst word in the English language is ‘hope.’
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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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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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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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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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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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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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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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