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.
BOBBY KNIGHTVictory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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Son, my name isn’t Knight to you, it’s coach Knight or it’s Mr. Knight. I don’t call people by their last name and neither should you.
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When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was ‘It will be O.K.’ I would wonder, ‘How the hell is it going to be O.K.?’ The worst word in the English language is ‘hope.’
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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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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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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I don’t intend to retire.
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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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Offense is not equal opportunity
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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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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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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