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.
BOBBY KNIGHTYou 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?”.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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My overall point is that ‘one and dones’ are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I apologize.
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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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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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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Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.
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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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Perform drills that force your players to think
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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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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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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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