Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, ‘He’s saying God screwed the pitcher.
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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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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.
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I don’t intend to retire.
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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven’t called walking for 20 years, now you don’t know what it is. When you call walking, you’re about half right.
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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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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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What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots
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I’ve always had an a$$-to-the-brain theory. When a player’s a$$ gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, Get me off of here.
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