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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.

Bobby Knight

Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
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Basketball Game Men Passing
I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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People Worried Worry
For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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Awards Favoritism Rewards
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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Self Esteem Success Winning
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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Competition Giving People Teaching
Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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Art Country Games People Sports Writing
A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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Coach Coaching Should
You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.
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Country Driven Games Hell People Sports
You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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Balls Play Sports
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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Kids Morning Running
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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Day Guarantee Run Tennis Writing
Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
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Chance Country Games Giving People Sports
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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Basketball Inspirational Teamwork
This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they’ll get rid of me, too.
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Guarantees Long Towns
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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Discipline Leadership Sports
You can’t imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, “God, you treat those assholes like I’d like to treat them.” And my question is, “Then why don’t you?”.
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Numbers People Sports
I’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
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Country Games People Sports Volleyball
To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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Basketball Practice Preparation
People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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Change People Years
I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
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Believe People Thinking
We don’t want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What’s going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?
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Deal Defeat Game might Thing
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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Basketball Real Sports
You remember when you were a kid growing up, and believed in Santa Claus? There’s not much difference between Santa Claus and me today, you know. We’re two overweight lovable guys that kids really enjoy.
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Basketball Country Games Growing People Sports
I’ve always had an a$$-to-the-brain theory. When a player’s a$$ gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, Get me off of here.
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Benches Brain Player
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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Basketball Hard Hockey Work
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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Basketball Knights Son
All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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Basketball Education Sports

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