The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
BOBBY KNIGHTPat has been instrumental in what we’ve done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we’ve done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that’s Pat.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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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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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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I’ve never felt my job was to win basketball games – rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.
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Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
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I’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.
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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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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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Practice structure determines success.
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You can’t imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, “God, you treat those assholes like I’d like to treat them.” And my question is, “Then why don’t you?”.
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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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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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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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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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