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Bobby Knight

Pat has been instrumental in what we’ve done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we’ve done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that’s Pat.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Hands Selfish
Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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Basketball Country Games People Sports
I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
BOBBY KNIGHT

People Worried Worry
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
The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Practice Running
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 KNIGHT

Basketball Defense Offense Two
If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Fame Opinion Popularity
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
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
And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Inspirational Teamwork
A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Running Team
Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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Basketball Motivational 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.
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Benefits Humor Sense Trying
Positive wish: ‘The sun will come out tomorrow.’ Negative reality: ‘Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Optimism Reality Wish
Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Practice Team Want
The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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Accuracy Country Games Media People Simple Sports

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