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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I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
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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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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average.
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