I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.
BOBBY KNIGHTAs 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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Practice structure determines success.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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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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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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And I guarantee you, I’m a better athlete than any f***g body writing. To this day, they don’t want to play tennis with me. The don’t want to play me in golf. They don’t want to f***g run with me
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When a passer has the option of passing to two players, I expect him to get the ball to the best shooter. I continually stop practice and ask players who the best shooter is and I expect them to know. It is important that you get the ball to your best shooter.
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Offense is not equal opportunity
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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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And 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.
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