The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
BOBBY KNIGHTA great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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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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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that’s going to happen, let’s make it happen.
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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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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I’m not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn’t have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.
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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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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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