I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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 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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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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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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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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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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Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
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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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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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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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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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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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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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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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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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