My overall point is that ‘one and dones’ are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I apologize.
BOBBY KNIGHTI’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.
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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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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
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As I’ve said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators – not recently – fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
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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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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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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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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.
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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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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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