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?
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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I’ve always had an a$$-to-the-brain theory. When a player’s a$$ gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, Get me off of here.
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You see we’ve got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he’s still coaching. I really don’t understand that.
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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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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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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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A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven’t been as well taught.
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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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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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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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I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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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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There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions that are a lot alike. There aren’t a hell of a lot of really good coaches or writers.
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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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