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.
BOBBY KNIGHTOffense at Indiana is not equal opportunity. Those players who shoot best are going to shoot most. It is important that every player know his offensive limitations. It is also important that a player know who the best shooter is on the team.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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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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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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I also believe that when something negative comes out about you in the media, that’s only one person’s opinion. These guys sometimes believe they’ve been ordained from on high to give the general opinion of the populace, and that just isn’t the case.
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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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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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My overall point is that ‘one and dones’ are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I apologize.
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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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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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