It is better to anticipate than to react.
BOBBY KNIGHTSuperiority 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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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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Practice structure determines success.
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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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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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Offense at Indiana is not equal opportunity. Those players who shoot best are going to shoot most. It is important that every player know his offensive limitations. It is also important that a player know who the best shooter is on the team.
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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 don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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As I’ve said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators – not recently – fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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