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 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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In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
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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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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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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When a passer has the option of passing to two players, I expect him to get the ball to the best shooter. I continually stop practice and ask players who the best shooter is and I expect them to know. It is important that you get the ball to your best shooter.
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BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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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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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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I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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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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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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If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
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