I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.
BOBBY KNIGHTWe don’t want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What’s going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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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.
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I’ve always had an a$$-to-the-brain theory. When a player’s a$$ gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, Get me off of here.
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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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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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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you’re a part of them and they’re a part of you.
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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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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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I don’t intend to retire.
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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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Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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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?”.
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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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