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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

I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
BOBBY KNIGHT

People Worried Worry
Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Country Games People Sports
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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Passing People Practice Stop
The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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Accuracy Country Games Media People Simple Sports
Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Game Men Passing
If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Fame Opinion Popularity
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Jobs Winning
I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Morning Sports
As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It’s conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Defense Offense Two
I don’t intend to retire.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Country Games People Retiring Sports
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Sorry Upset
Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Art Country Games People Sports Writing
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Home Running Winning
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
BOBBY KNIGHT

Day Guarantee Run Tennis Writing
All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Education Sports
When we’re playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man’s job to stop the center. It’s the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside.
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Basketball Jobs Team
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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Competition Giving People Teaching
It is better to anticipate than to react.
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Anticipate Better React
If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Class People
The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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Basketball Practice Running
I’d probably be better off without trying to satisfy me, with my sense of humor. There are things that I have said that are funny to me, but they weren’t to somebody in the press. So that hasn’t worked to my benefit.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Benefits Humor Sense Trying
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Believe Giving Media
Good basketball always starts with good defense!
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Country Defense Games People Sports
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 always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Night Practice
My definition isas follows: 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it it that way all the time.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Definition Follow Ingredient Parent Time
To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Practice Preparation

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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