Superiority and success doesn’t favor good effort or self-esteem… The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.
BOBBY KNIGHTA great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Offense is not equal opportunity
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I don’t intend to retire.
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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions that are a lot alike. There aren’t a hell of a lot of really good coaches or writers.
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass.
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I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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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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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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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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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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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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The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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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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