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.
BOBBY KNIGHTAnd 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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Perform drills that force your players to think
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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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 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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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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I’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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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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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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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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I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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