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?”.
BOBBY KNIGHTA coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It’s conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.
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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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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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I’d probably be better off without trying to satisfy me, with my sense of humor. There are things that I have said that are funny to me, but they weren’t to somebody in the press. So that hasn’t worked to my benefit.
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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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In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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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’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
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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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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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