Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
BOBBY KNIGHTAll 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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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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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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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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To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you’re a part of them and they’re a part of you.
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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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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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We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
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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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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I’ve always been too confrontational, especially when I know I’m right.
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Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
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