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

Bobby Knight

Positive wish: ‘The sun will come out tomorrow.’ Negative reality: ‘Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Optimism Reality Wish
A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven’t been as well taught.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Competition Giving People Teaching
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
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Discipline Knowing Way
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball College Player
Practice structure determines success.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Coaching Practice
If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Country Games People Son Sports
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Inspirational Teamwork
I’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Country Games People Sports Volleyball
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

Passing People Practice Stop
I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Sorry Upset
Perform drills that force your players to think
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Player Thinking
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 Hockey Work
I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Fake Game Wonder
Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Motivational Sports
So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, ‘He’s saying God screwed the pitcher.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Home Running Winning

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

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