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 KNIGHTWe should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I’ve always been too confrontational, especially when I know I’m right.
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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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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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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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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 was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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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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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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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
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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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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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