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.
BOBBY KNIGHTWell, 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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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 always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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Offense is not equal opportunity
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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.
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As I’ve said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators – not recently – fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
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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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And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
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I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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