I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
BOBBY KNIGHTThe single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Offense is not equal opportunity
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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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Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
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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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Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that’s going to happen, let’s make it happen.
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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I tell you what really fries my ass. When somebody gets on me for the way I look. Fat. Overweight. Well, I may be overweight. But I’m sure not fat.
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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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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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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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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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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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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Practice structure determines success.
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We 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?
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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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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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And I guarantee you, I’m a better athlete than any f***g body writing. To this day, they don’t want to play tennis with me. The don’t want to play me in golf. They don’t want to f***g run with me
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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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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If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
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