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 KNIGHTMy 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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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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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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I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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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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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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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions that are a lot alike. There aren’t a hell of a lot of really good coaches or writers.
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From the time I started teaching, when I was 21, I’ve always signed my name Bob Knight. My college coach called me Bobby, still does. But I have never introduced myself to anybody in my adult life in any way other than, “I’m Bob Knight.”
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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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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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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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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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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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