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.
BOBBY KNIGHTI 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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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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At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven’t called walking for 20 years, now you don’t know what it is. When you call walking, you’re about half right.
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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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What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots
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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
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And I guarantee you, I’m a better athlete than any f***g body writing. To this day, they don’t want to play tennis with me. The don’t want to play me in golf. They don’t want to f***g run with me
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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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My definition isas follows: 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it it that way all the time.
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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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