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.
BOBBY KNIGHTThe biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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I’ve never felt my job was to win basketball games – rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.
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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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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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Practice structure determines success.
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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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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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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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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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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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I don’t intend to retire.
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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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My overall point is that ‘one and dones’ are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I apologize.
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