I’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
BOBBY KNIGHTWriting was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
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Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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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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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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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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Offense is not equal opportunity
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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 was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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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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When we’re playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man’s job to stop the center. It’s the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside.
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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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Perform drills that force your players to think
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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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