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 KNIGHTPositive 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass.
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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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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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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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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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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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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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Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
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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 think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
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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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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions that are a lot alike. There aren’t a hell of a lot of really good coaches or writers.
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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