I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
BOBBY KNIGHTA great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Positive wish: ‘The sun will come out tomorrow.’ Negative reality: ‘Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.
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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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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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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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I’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
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I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.
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Practice structure determines success.
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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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This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they’ll get rid of me, too.
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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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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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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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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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Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
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