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.
BOBBY KNIGHTVictory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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When a passer has the option of passing to two players, I expect him to get the ball to the best shooter. I continually stop practice and ask players who the best shooter is and I expect them to know. It is important that you get the ball to your best shooter.
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BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
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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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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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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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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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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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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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In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
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