Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
BOBBY KNIGHTSo 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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’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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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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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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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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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 predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was ‘It will be O.K.’ I would wonder, ‘How the hell is it going to be O.K.?’ The worst word in the English language is ‘hope.’
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Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.
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Son, my name isn’t Knight to you, it’s coach Knight or it’s Mr. Knight. I don’t call people by their last name and neither should you.
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I also believe that when something negative comes out about you in the media, that’s only one person’s opinion. These guys sometimes believe they’ve been ordained from on high to give the general opinion of the populace, and that just isn’t the case.
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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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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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In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
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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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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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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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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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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.
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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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Practice structure determines success.
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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?
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BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
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