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.
BOBBY KNIGHTA coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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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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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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Practice structure determines success.
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And I guarantee you, I’m a better athlete than any f***g body writing. To this day, they don’t want to play tennis with me. The don’t want to play me in golf. They don’t want to f***g run with me
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I don’t intend to retire.
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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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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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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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I’d probably be better off without trying to satisfy me, with my sense of humor. There are things that I have said that are funny to me, but they weren’t to somebody in the press. So that hasn’t worked to my benefit.
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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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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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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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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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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought… about potential pitfalls.
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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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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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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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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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So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, ‘He’s saying God screwed the pitcher.
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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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Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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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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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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