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.
BOBBY KNIGHTLearn to do things right and then do them right every time.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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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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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 think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I’ve always been too confrontational, especially when I know I’m right.
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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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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