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 KNIGHTI’m not sure sports writing is an art.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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I tell you what really fries my ass. When somebody gets on me for the way I look. Fat. Overweight. Well, I may be overweight. But I’m sure not fat.
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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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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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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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In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
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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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So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, ‘He’s saying God screwed the pitcher.
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Superiority and success doesn’t favor good effort or self-esteem… The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.
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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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The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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I also believe that when something negative comes out about you in the media, that’s only one person’s opinion. These guys sometimes believe they’ve been ordained from on high to give the general opinion of the populace, and that just isn’t the case.
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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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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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