The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
BOBBY KNIGHTBS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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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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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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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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Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that’s going to happen, let’s make it happen.
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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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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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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought… about potential pitfalls.
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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 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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