The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
BOBBY KNIGHTYou 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
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You can’t imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, “God, you treat those assholes like I’d like to treat them.” And my question is, “Then why don’t you?”.
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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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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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When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass.
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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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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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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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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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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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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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