For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
BOBBY KNIGHTWriting was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you’re a part of them and they’re a part of you.
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I don’t intend to retire.
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You see we’ve got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he’s still coaching. I really don’t understand that.
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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
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It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt that this word is the most ill-defined in all of our language.
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven’t been as well taught.
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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 thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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I’ve always had an a$$-to-the-brain theory. When a player’s a$$ gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, Get me off of here.
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