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I’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.

Bobby Knight

Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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Basketball Country Games People Sports
Perform drills that force your players to think
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Basketball Player Thinking
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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Country Games Guy People Sports Years
Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
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Chance Country Games Giving People Sports
I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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Art Sports Writing
You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.
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Country Driven Games Hell People Sports
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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Basketball Defense Offense Two
A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven’t been as well taught.
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Competition Giving People Teaching
You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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Balls Play Sports
I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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People Worried Worry
The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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Accuracy Country Games Media People Simple Sports
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Inspirational Teamwork
The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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Basketball Inspirational Ladders
Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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Basketball Leadership Motivational
Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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Basketball May
Offense is not equal opportunity
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Basketball Game Offense Opportunity
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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Chance Country Games Losing People Sports
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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Basketball Country Games Growing People Sports
This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they’ll get rid of me, too.
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Guarantees Long Towns
I’ve always had an a$$-to-the-brain theory. When a player’s a$$ gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, Get me off of here.
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Benches Brain Player
Offense at Indiana is not equal opportunity. Those players who shoot best are going to shoot most. It is important that every player know his offensive limitations. It is also important that a player know who the best shooter is on the team.
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Basketball Opportunity Team
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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Country Games Jobs Media People Sports
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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Basketball Class People
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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Basketball Hands Selfish
I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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Basketball Morning Sports
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Jobs Winning
As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Games Team Winning

I’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.

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I’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.

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