In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
BOBBY KNIGHTTo be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you’re a part of them and they’re a part of you.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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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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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.
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I don’t intend to retire.
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I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.
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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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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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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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When we’re playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man’s job to stop the center. It’s the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside.
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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
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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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I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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I’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
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