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.
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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If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
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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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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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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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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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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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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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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.
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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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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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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