I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
BOBBY KNIGHTYou 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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I also believe that when something negative comes out about you in the media, that’s only one person’s opinion. These guys sometimes believe they’ve been ordained from on high to give the general opinion of the populace, and that just isn’t the case.
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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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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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The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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I don’t intend to retire.
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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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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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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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