If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
BOBBY KNIGHTAll of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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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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So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, ‘He’s saying God screwed the pitcher.
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From the time I started teaching, when I was 21, I’ve always signed my name Bob Knight. My college coach called me Bobby, still does. But I have never introduced myself to anybody in my adult life in any way other than, “I’m Bob Knight.”
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Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
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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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When we’re playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man’s job to stop the center. It’s the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside.
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I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
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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’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It’s conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.
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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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