Years Quotes by Bobby Knight

9 Years quotes by Bobby Knight

Bobby Knight’s nine remarks on Years present a compact view of his outspoken take on time. The limited set still captures the intensity and directness he’s known for.

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I'm a teacher. My mother was a teacher. I spent 40 years as a teacher.

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Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.

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People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.

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As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been…

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During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning…

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At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what…

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Major League Baseball has the best idea of all. Three years before they'll take a kid out of college, then they have…

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If I were involved with the NBA, I wouldn't want a 19-year-old or a 20-year-old kid to bring into all the travel…

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All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to…

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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…

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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…

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There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions that are…

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The goal is to make practice more difficult, physically/mentally, than anything your players will face during a game.

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My practices were not set up to be easy or enjoyed.

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The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.

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I've always felt that, you know, the Almighty has a lot of things to do other than help my basketball team.

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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation

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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls.

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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.

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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.

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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.

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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…

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Everybody hears, but few listen.

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Defense is all about helping. No one can guard a good dribbler, You have to walk kids through how to help and then how…

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