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.
BOBBY KNIGHTWhen 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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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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I tell you what really fries my ass. When somebody gets on me for the way I look. Fat. Overweight. Well, I may be overweight. But I’m sure not fat.
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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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I’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
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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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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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Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
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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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As I’ve said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators – not recently – fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
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Practice structure determines success.
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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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