For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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We don’t want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What’s going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?
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This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they’ll get rid of me, too.
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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that’s going to happen, let’s make it happen.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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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 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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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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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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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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