Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
BOBBY KNIGHTWe 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?
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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Perform drills that force your players to think
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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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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 wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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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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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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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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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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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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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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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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