Superiority and success doesn’t favor good effort or self-esteem… The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.
BOBBY KNIGHTThe will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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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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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 biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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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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It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt that this word is the most ill-defined in all of our language.
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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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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.
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Offense is not equal opportunity
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I don’t intend to retire.
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When a passer has the option of passing to two players, I expect him to get the ball to the best shooter. I continually stop practice and ask players who the best shooter is and I expect them to know. It is important that you get the ball to your best shooter.
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