All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
BOBBY KNIGHTI was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Positive wish: ‘The sun will come out tomorrow.’ Negative reality: ‘Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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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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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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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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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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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.
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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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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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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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I tell you what really fries my ass. When somebody gets on me for the way I look. Fat. Overweight. Well, I may be overweight. But I’m sure not fat.
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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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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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My definition isas follows: 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it it that way all the time.
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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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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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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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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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