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.
BOBBY KNIGHTI’ve always had an a$$-to-the-brain theory. When a player’s a$$ gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, Get me off of here.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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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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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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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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Offense is not equal opportunity
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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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A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven’t been as well taught.
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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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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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All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average.
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In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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