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.
BOBBY KNIGHTSon, 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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Offense is not equal opportunity
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I don’t intend to retire.
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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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We don’t want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What’s going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?
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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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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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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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The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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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Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
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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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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.
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