Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
BOBBY KNIGHTI don’t think I have ever been out of control.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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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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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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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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The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought… about potential pitfalls.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
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Offense at Indiana is not equal opportunity. Those players who shoot best are going to shoot most. It is important that every player know his offensive limitations. It is also important that a player know who the best shooter is on the team.
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From the time I started teaching, when I was 21, I’ve always signed my name Bob Knight. My college coach called me Bobby, still does. But I have never introduced myself to anybody in my adult life in any way other than, “I’m Bob Knight.”
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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Offense is not equal opportunity
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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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So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, ‘He’s saying God screwed the pitcher.
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