Offense at Indiana is not equal opportunity. Those players who shoot best are going to shoot most. It is important that every player know his offensive limitations. It is also important that a player know who the best shooter is on the team.
BOBBY KNIGHTI don’t think I have ever been out of control.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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When a passer has the option of passing to two players, I expect him to get the ball to the best shooter. I continually stop practice and ask players who the best shooter is and I expect them to know. It is important that you get the ball to your best shooter.
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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As 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.
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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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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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To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you’re a part of them and they’re a part of you.
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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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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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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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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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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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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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