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.
BOBBY KNIGHTI, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
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Offense is not equal opportunity
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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And I guarantee you, I’m a better athlete than any f***g body writing. To this day, they don’t want to play tennis with me. The don’t want to play me in golf. They don’t want to f***g run with me
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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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Perform drills that force your players to think
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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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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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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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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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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.
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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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