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 KNIGHTWhen I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was ‘It will be O.K.’ I would wonder, ‘How the hell is it going to be O.K.?’ The worst word in the English language is ‘hope.’
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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You 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.
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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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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.
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I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average.
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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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In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
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Pat has been instrumental in what we’ve done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we’ve done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that’s Pat.
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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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