When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was ‘It will be O.K.’ I would wonder, ‘How the hell is it going to be O.K.?’ The worst word in the English language is ‘hope.’
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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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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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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The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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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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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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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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I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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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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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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