This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they’ll get rid of me, too.
BOBBY KNIGHTGood basketball always starts with good defense!
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that’s going to happen, let’s make it happen.
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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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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.
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If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.
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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 think I have ever been out of control.
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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 always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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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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Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
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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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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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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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