The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
BOBBY KNIGHTI always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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We don’t want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What’s going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?
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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.
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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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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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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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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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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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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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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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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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What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots
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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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