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 KNIGHTTo me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
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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.
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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.
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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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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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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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Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
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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.
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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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My definition isas follows: 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it it that way all the time.
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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