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.
BOBBY KNIGHTWhen 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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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.
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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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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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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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In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
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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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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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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Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
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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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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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From the time I started teaching, when I was 21, I’ve always signed my name Bob Knight. My college coach called me Bobby, still does. But I have never introduced myself to anybody in my adult life in any way other than, “I’m Bob Knight.”
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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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