The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
BOBBY KNIGHTIt is better to anticipate than to react.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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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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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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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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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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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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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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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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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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