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Bobby Knight

Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
BOBBY KNIGHT

Chance Country Games Giving People Sports
You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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Balls Play Sports
As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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Games Team Winning
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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Basketball Knights Son
The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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Accuracy Country Games Media People Simple Sports
The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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Country Long People Red
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
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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Basketball Jobs Team
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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Basketball Jobs Winning
Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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Practice Team Want
I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Chance Country Games Losing People Sports
The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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Practice Reason Volleyball
Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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Basketball Leadership Motivational
I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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Art Sports Writing
Offense is not equal opportunity
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Basketball Game Offense Opportunity
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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Deeper Higher Phd
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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Basketball Desire Failure
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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Home Running Winning
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
Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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Art Country Games People Sports Writing
A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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Coach Coaching Should
Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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Basketball Country Games People Sports
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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Deal Defeat Game might Thing
To 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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Coaching Sports Team
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
The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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Basketball Practice Running
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

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