People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
BOBBY KNIGHTAs coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It’s conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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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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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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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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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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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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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.
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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I tell you what really fries my ass. When somebody gets on me for the way I look. Fat. Overweight. Well, I may be overweight. But I’m sure not fat.
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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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Son, my name isn’t Knight to you, it’s coach Knight or it’s Mr. Knight. I don’t call people by their last name and neither should you.
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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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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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I don’t intend to retire.
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