I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
BOBBY KNIGHTWe should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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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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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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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought… about potential pitfalls.
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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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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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I don’t intend to retire.
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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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I’d probably be better off without trying to satisfy me, with my sense of humor. There are things that I have said that are funny to me, but they weren’t to somebody in the press. So that hasn’t worked to my benefit.
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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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I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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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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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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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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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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