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 KNIGHTYou remember when you were a kid growing up, and believed in Santa Claus? There’s not much difference between Santa Claus and me today, you know. We’re two overweight lovable guys that kids really enjoy.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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Offense is not equal opportunity
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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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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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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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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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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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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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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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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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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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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