I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.
BOBBY KNIGHTI, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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Offense is not equal opportunity
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I’ve never felt my job was to win basketball games – rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.
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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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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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I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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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.
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When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass.
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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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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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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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We don’t want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What’s going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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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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