If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
BOBBY KNIGHTI don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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When we’re playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man’s job to stop the center. It’s the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside.
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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 would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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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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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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You remember when you were a kid growing up, and believed in Santa Claus? There’s not much difference between Santa Claus and me today, you know. We’re two overweight lovable guys that kids really enjoy.
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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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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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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 don’t intend to retire.
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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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You see we’ve got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he’s still coaching. I really don’t understand that.
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Perform drills that force your players to think
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Son, my name isn’t Knight to you, it’s coach Knight or it’s Mr. Knight. I don’t call people by their last name and neither should you.
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