Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
BOBBY KNIGHTI’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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions that are a lot alike. There aren’t a hell of a lot of really good coaches or writers.
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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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Offense is not equal opportunity
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My definition isas follows: 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it it that way all the time.
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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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The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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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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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.
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