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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.

Bobby Knight

For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Awards Favoritism Rewards
The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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Basketball Practice Running
I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
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Believe People Thinking
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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Optimism Reality Wish
The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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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Basketball College Player
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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Coaching Sports Team
I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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Basketball Morning Sports
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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Basketball Desire Failure
The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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Accuracy Country Games Media People Simple Sports
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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Chance Country Games Losing People Sports
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Benches Brain Player
This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they’ll get rid of me, too.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Guarantees Long Towns
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Jobs Team
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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Basketball Class People
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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Basketball Inspirational Teamwork

Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.

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