It is better to anticipate than to react.
BOBBY KNIGHTPeople change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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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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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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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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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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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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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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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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Practice structure determines success.
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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.
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You see we’ve got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he’s still coaching. I really don’t understand that.
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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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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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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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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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