The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
BOBBY KNIGHTFailure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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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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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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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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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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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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