As I’ve said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators – not recently – fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
BOBBY KNIGHTThere 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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I’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
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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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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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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
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And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
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We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
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I tell you what really fries my ass. When somebody gets on me for the way I look. Fat. Overweight. Well, I may be overweight. But I’m sure not fat.
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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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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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I’ve always had an a$$-to-the-brain theory. When a player’s a$$ gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, Get me off of here.
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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