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It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt that this word is the most ill-defined in all of our language.

Bobby Knight

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
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 be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you’re a part of them and they’re a part of you.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Coaching Sports Team
To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Practice Preparation
I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Believe Luck Preparation
From the time I started teaching, when I was 21, I’ve always signed my name Bob Knight. My college coach called me Bobby, still does. But I have never introduced myself to anybody in my adult life in any way other than, “I’m Bob Knight.”
BOBBY KNIGHT

College Knight Teaching
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

Basketball Inspirational Sports
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Coach Game Understand
And I guarantee you, I’m a better athlete than any f***g body writing. To this day, they don’t want to play tennis with me. The don’t want to play me in golf. They don’t want to f***g run with me
BOBBY KNIGHT

Day Guarantee Run Tennis Writing
I’d probably be better off without trying to satisfy me, with my sense of humor. There are things that I have said that are funny to me, but they weren’t to somebody in the press. So that hasn’t worked to my benefit.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Benefits Humor Sense Trying
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
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
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
Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Motivational Sports
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Benches Brain Player
Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
BOBBY KNIGHT

Chance Country Games Giving People Sports

It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt that this word is the most ill-defined in all of our language.

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It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt that this word is the most ill-defined in all of our language.

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