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Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.

Bobby Knight

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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Home Running Winning
Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Leadership Motivational
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Real Sports
To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Practice Preparation
Superiority and success doesn’t favor good effort or self-esteem… The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Self Esteem Success Winning
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Class People
Good basketball always starts with good defense!
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Country Defense Games People Sports
Perform drills that force your players to think
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Player Thinking
Offense is not equal opportunity
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Game Offense Opportunity
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Discipline Leadership Sports
Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Motivational Sports
Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Game Men Passing
All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Kids Morning Running
Everybody hears, but few listen.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Everybody Listen
My definition isas follows: 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it it that way all the time.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Definition Follow Ingredient Parent Time
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Opportunity Team
For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Awards Favoritism Rewards
The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Inspirational Ladders
Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
BOBBY KNIGHT

Chance Country Games Giving People Sports
People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Change People Years
When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was ‘It will be O.K.’ I would wonder, ‘How the hell is it going to be O.K.?’ The worst word in the English language is ‘hope.’
BOBBY KNIGHT

Coaching Firsts Thinking
I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Chance Country Games Losing People Sports
Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Art Country Games People Sports Writing
If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Fame Opinion Popularity
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
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Country Games People Sports
The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Accuracy Country Games Media People Simple Sports
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Benefits Humor Sense Trying

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