The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
BOBBY KNIGHTIt 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you’re a part of them and they’re a part of 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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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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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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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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From the time I started teaching, when I was 21, I’ve always signed my name Bob Knight. My college coach called me Bobby, still does. But I have never introduced myself to anybody in my adult life in any way other than, “I’m Bob Knight.”
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I tell you what really fries my ass. When somebody gets on me for the way I look. Fat. Overweight. Well, I may be overweight. But I’m sure not fat.
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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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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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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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Offense is not equal opportunity
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When we’re playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man’s job to stop the center. It’s the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside.
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