Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It’s conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.
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What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots
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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 coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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Practice structure determines success.
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Perform drills that force your players to think
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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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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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