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The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.

Bobby Knight

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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Jobs Team
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Benefits Humor Sense Trying
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 KNIGHT

Country Games Guy People Sports Years
It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt that this word is the most ill-defined in all of our language.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Discipline Leadership Sports
Son, my name isn’t Knight to you, it’s coach Knight or it’s Mr. Knight. I don’t call people by their last name and neither should you.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Knights Son
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
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Country Games People Sports
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Country Games Jobs Media People Sports
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Coaching Sports Team
Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Art Country Games People Sports Writing
I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Fake Game Wonder
To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Practice Preparation
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Opportunity Team
If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Country Games People Son Sports
Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought… about potential pitfalls.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Fixing Needs Pitfalls
People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Change People Years
I also believe that when something negative comes out about you in the media, that’s only one person’s opinion. These guys sometimes believe they’ve been ordained from on high to give the general opinion of the populace, and that just isn’t the case.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Believe Giving Media

The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.

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