I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
BOBBY KNIGHTYour biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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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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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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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 recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.
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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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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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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought… about potential pitfalls.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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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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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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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 think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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