I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
BOBBY KNIGHTFrom the time I started teaching, when I was 21, I’ve always signed my name Bob Knight. My college coach called me Bobby, still does. But I have never introduced myself to anybody in my adult life in any way other than, “I’m Bob Knight.”
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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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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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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.
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At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven’t called walking for 20 years, now you don’t know what it is. When you call walking, you’re about half right.
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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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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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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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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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
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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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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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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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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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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Practice structure determines success.
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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.
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You remember when you were a kid growing up, and believed in Santa Claus? There’s not much difference between Santa Claus and me today, you know. We’re two overweight lovable guys that kids really enjoy.
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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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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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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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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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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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