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.
BOBBY KNIGHTAs his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Offense 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.
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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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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.
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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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When a passer has the option of passing to two players, I expect him to get the ball to the best shooter. I continually stop practice and ask players who the best shooter is and I expect them to know. It is important that you get the ball to your best shooter.
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There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions that are a lot alike. There aren’t a hell of a lot of really good coaches or writers.
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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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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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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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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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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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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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