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 KNIGHTA coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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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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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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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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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?”.
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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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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.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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Son, my name isn’t Knight to you, it’s coach Knight or it’s Mr. Knight. I don’t call people by their last name and neither should you.
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I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
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I don’t intend to retire.
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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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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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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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