Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
BOBBY KNIGHTI don’t intend to retire.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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When a passer has the option of passing to two players, I expect him to get the ball to the best shooter. I continually stop practice and ask players who the best shooter is and I expect them to know. It is important that you get the ball to your best shooter.
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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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Perform drills that force your players to think
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Offense is not equal opportunity
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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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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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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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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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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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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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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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You remember when you were a kid growing up, and believed in Santa Claus? There’s not much difference between Santa Claus and me today, you know. We’re two overweight lovable guys that kids really enjoy.
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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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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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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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