Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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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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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass.
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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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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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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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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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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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Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
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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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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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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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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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