We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
BOBBY KNIGHTI’m not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn’t have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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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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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions that are a lot alike. There aren’t a hell of a lot of really good coaches or writers.
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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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I’ve always had an a$$-to-the-brain theory. When a player’s a$$ gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, Get me off of here.
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This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they’ll get rid of me, too.
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The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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