Bobby Knight Quotes About Basketball

Quotes about: Basketball

• Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

  Bobby Knight

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

• If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Nba, Making Love

• When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass.

  Bobby Knight

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

  "Knight moves to Texas" by Kevin Asseo, news.bbc.co.uk. March 22, 2001.

• Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Men, Nba

• Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Winning

• 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

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Nba, Games

• I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Nba, Fake

• I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Night, Practice

• Offense at Indiana is not equal opportunity. Those players who shoot best are going to shoot most. It is important that every player know his offensive limitations. It is also important that a player know who the best shooter is on the team. 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.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Team, Opportunity

• All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Education, Sports

• In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Order, Nba

• Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.

  Bobby Knight

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

• You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Sports, Athlete

• Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

  Bobby Knight

  Motivational, Leadership, Basketball

• Everybody hears, but few listen.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball

• We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Hard Work, Hockey

• Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Failure, Desire

• I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.

  Bobby Knight

  Inspirational, Basketball, Four

• 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.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Jobs, Team

• I hate casual shooting. Every shot is preceded by working to get open and catch and shoot under game like conditions

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Hate, Nba

• 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.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Offense And Defense, Two

• Players must be able to carry out simple instructions from the bench to the court. If they can't, then they can't play

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Simple, Player

• 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.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Passion, Confrontation

• If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Class, People

• I'm not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn't have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Athlete, Thinking

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