If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
BOBBY KNIGHTYou are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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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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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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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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I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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I’ve never felt my job was to win basketball games – rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.
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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
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You remember when you were a kid growing up, and believed in Santa Claus? There’s not much difference between Santa Claus and me today, you know. We’re two overweight lovable guys that kids really enjoy.
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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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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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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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