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.
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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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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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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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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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 play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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And I guarantee you, I’m a better athlete than any f***g body writing. To this day, they don’t want to play tennis with me. The don’t want to play me in golf. They don’t want to f***g run with me
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What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots
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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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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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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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Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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