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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.

Bobby Knight

People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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Change People Years
Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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Basketball May
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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Basketball Opportunity Team
Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
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Chance Country Games Giving People Sports
The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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Accuracy Country Games Media People Simple Sports
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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Basketball Knights Son
Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
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Basketball Game Men Passing
Everybody hears, but few listen.
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Basketball Everybody Listen
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.’
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Coaching Firsts Thinking
BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
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Deeper Higher Phd
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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Believe Giving Media
A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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Coach Coaching Should
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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Basketball Class People
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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Home Running Winning
For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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Awards Favoritism Rewards
Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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Art Country Games People Sports Writing
You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.
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Country Driven Games Hell People Sports
I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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Coaches Games Sports Teacher
I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
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Basketball Fake Game Wonder
Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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Basketball Country Defense Games People Sports
I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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Believe Luck Preparation
I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.
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Chance Country Games Losing People Sports
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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Basketball Real Sports
The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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Art Sports Writing
I’m not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn’t have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.
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Athlete Basketball Thinking
Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
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Basketball Desire Failure

You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.

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