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 KNIGHTThe red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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.
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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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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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I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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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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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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You can’t imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, “God, you treat those assholes like I’d like to treat them.” And my question is, “Then why don’t you?”.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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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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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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