Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
BOBBY KNIGHTAnd 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
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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When a passer has the option of passing to two players, I expect him to get the ball to the best shooter. I continually stop practice and ask players who the best shooter is and I expect them to know. It is important that you get the ball to your best shooter.
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In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
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And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
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Perform drills that force your players to think
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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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When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass.
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My definition isas follows: 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it it that way all the time.
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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 always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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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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What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots
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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.
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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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