Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
BOBBY KNIGHTBS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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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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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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I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
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As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It’s conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.
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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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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 don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass.
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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.
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I also believe that when something negative comes out about you in the media, that’s only one person’s opinion. These guys sometimes believe they’ve been ordained from on high to give the general opinion of the populace, and that just isn’t the case.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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I’ve never felt my job was to win basketball games – rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.
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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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