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.
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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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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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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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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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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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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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’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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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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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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Offense is not equal opportunity
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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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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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