Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
BOBBY KNIGHTMost people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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When 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.’
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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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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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This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they’ll get rid of me, too.
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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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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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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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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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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.
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I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.
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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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