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.
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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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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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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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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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 play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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I’m not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn’t have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.
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If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.
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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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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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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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I’ve never felt my job was to win basketball games – rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.
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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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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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Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
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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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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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Positive wish: ‘The sun will come out tomorrow.’ Negative reality: ‘Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.
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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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From the time I started teaching, when I was 21, I’ve always signed my name Bob Knight. My college coach called me Bobby, still does. But I have never introduced myself to anybody in my adult life in any way other than, “I’m Bob Knight.”
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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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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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You can’t imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, “God, you treat those assholes like I’d like to treat them.” And my question is, “Then why don’t you?”.
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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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