Superiority and success doesn’t favor good effort or self-esteem… The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.
BOBBY KNIGHTAs I’ve said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators – not recently – fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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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.
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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’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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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.
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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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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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
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Perform drills that force your players to think
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Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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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.
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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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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 been ordained from on high to give the general opinion of the populace, and that just isn’t the case.
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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.
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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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I’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
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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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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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