Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
BOBBY KNIGHTThis 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It’s conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.
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The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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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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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I’ve always been too confrontational, especially when I know I’m right.
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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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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots
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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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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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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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Offense 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.
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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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