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.
BOBBY KNIGHTOffense is not equal opportunity
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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Practice structure determines success.
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When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was ‘It will be O.K.’ I would wonder, ‘How the hell is it going to be O.K.?’ The worst word in the English language is ‘hope.’
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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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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought… about potential pitfalls.
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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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Offense at Indiana is not equal opportunity. Those players who shoot best are going to shoot most. It is important that every player know his offensive limitations. It is also important that a player know who the best shooter is on the team.
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I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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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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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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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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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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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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