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.
BOBBY KNIGHTI’d probably be better off without trying to satisfy me, with my sense of humor. There are things that I have said that are funny to me, but they weren’t to somebody in the press. So that hasn’t worked to my benefit.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Perform drills that force your players to think
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I don’t intend to retire.
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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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I’d probably be better off without trying to satisfy me, with my sense of humor. There are things that I have said that are funny to me, but they weren’t to somebody in the press. So that hasn’t worked to my benefit.
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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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Offense is not equal opportunity
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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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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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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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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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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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BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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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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Pat has been instrumental in what we’ve done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we’ve done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that’s Pat.
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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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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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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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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought… about potential pitfalls.
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Superiority and success doesn’t favor good effort or self-esteem… The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.
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You see we’ve got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he’s still coaching. I really don’t understand that.
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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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