I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
BOBBY KNIGHTI was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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As I’ve said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators – not recently – fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
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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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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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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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I’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
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When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was ‘It will be O.K.’ I would wonder, ‘How the hell is it going to be O.K.?’ The worst word in the English language is ‘hope.’
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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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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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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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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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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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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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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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