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.
BOBBY KNIGHTIn order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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.
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I’ve never felt my job was to win basketball games – rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.
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As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It’s conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.
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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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Positive wish: ‘The sun will come out tomorrow.’ Negative reality: ‘Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.
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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought… about potential pitfalls.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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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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I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
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BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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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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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
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