I’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
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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The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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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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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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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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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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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Offense is not equal opportunity
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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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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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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.
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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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You 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.
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