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.
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 would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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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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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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When we’re playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man’s job to stop the center. It’s the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
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If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.
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I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
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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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You can’t imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, “God, you treat those assholes like I’d like to treat them.” And my question is, “Then why don’t you?”.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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You see we’ve got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he’s still coaching. I really don’t understand that.
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If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
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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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You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.
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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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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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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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Practice structure determines success.
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It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt that this word is the most ill-defined in all of our language.
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From the time I started teaching, when I was 21, I’ve always signed my name Bob Knight. My college coach called me Bobby, still does. But I have never introduced myself to anybody in my adult life in any way other than, “I’m Bob Knight.”
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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.
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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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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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