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.
BOBBY KNIGHTThere 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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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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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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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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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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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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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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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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Pat has been instrumental in what we’ve done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we’ve done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that’s Pat.
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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 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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I’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
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