I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
BOBBY KNIGHTIf 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.
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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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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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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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My overall point is that ‘one and dones’ are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I apologize.
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There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I’ve always been too confrontational, especially when I know I’m right.
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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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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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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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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.
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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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I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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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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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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