You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
BOBBY KNIGHTWhy talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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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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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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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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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought… about potential pitfalls.
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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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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven’t been as well taught.
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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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You can’t imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, “God, you treat those assholes like I’d like to treat them.” And my question is, “Then why don’t you?”.
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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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We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
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Practice structure determines success.
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