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?”.
BOBBY KNIGHTI always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
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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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I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.
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So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, ‘He’s saying God screwed the pitcher.
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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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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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Pat has been instrumental in what we’ve done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we’ve done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that’s Pat.
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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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Superiority and success doesn’t favor good effort or self-esteem… The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.
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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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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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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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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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