For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
BOBBY KNIGHTAs his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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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 recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.
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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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Practice structure determines success.
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Positive 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.
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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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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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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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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven’t been as well taught.
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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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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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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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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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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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I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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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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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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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