I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
BOBBY KNIGHTI think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
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My 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.
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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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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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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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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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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I’m not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn’t have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.
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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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Offense is not equal opportunity
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Positive wish: ‘The sun will come out tomorrow.’ Negative reality: ‘Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.
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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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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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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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