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.
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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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought… about potential pitfalls.
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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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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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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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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 is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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I’m not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn’t have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.
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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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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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You see we’ve got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he’s still coaching. I really don’t understand that.
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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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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