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.
BOBBY KNIGHTIt is better to anticipate than to react.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Practice structure determines success.
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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I 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.
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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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I’ve always had an a$$-to-the-brain theory. When a player’s a$$ gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, Get me off of here.
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Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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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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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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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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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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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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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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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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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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