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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.

Bobby Knight

To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Practice Preparation
Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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Mistake Team Victory
Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
BOBBY KNIGHT

Chance Country Games Giving People Sports
It is better to anticipate than to react.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Anticipate Better React
Positive wish: ‘The sun will come out tomorrow.’ Negative reality: ‘Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Optimism Reality Wish
Offense is not equal opportunity
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Basketball Game Offense Opportunity
Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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Practice Team Want
Pat has been instrumental in what we’ve done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we’ve done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that’s Pat.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Hands Selfish
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Country Games Jobs Media People Sports
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Athlete Basketball Thinking
Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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Basketball Country Games People Sports
The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Practice Running
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?
BOBBY KNIGHT

Deal Defeat Game might Thing
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 KNIGHT

Coaching Firsts Thinking
I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Night Practice
A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Running Team

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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