I’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.
BOBBY KNIGHTIt is better to anticipate than to react.
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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I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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My overall point is that ‘one and dones’ are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I apologize.
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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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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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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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Offense is not equal opportunity
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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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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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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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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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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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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