Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
BOBBY KNIGHTI don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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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.
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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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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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I’ve always been too confrontational, especially when I know I’m right.
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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.
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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.
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Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
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It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt that this word is the most ill-defined in all of our language.
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