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.’
BOBBY KNIGHTOffense 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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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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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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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.
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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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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that’s going to happen, let’s make it happen.
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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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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And I guarantee you, I’m a better athlete than any f***g body writing. To this day, they don’t want to play tennis with me. The don’t want to play me in golf. They don’t want to f***g run with me
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At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven’t called walking for 20 years, now you don’t know what it is. When you call walking, you’re about half right.
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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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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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I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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Offense is not equal opportunity
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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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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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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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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’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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I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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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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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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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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