If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
BOBBY KNIGHTVictory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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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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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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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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This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they’ll get rid of me, too.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions that are a lot alike. There aren’t a hell of a lot of really good coaches or writers.
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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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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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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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I’ve never felt my job was to win basketball games – rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.
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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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