Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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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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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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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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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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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When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was ‘It will be O.K.’ I would wonder, ‘How the hell is it going to be O.K.?’ The worst word in the English language is ‘hope.’
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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’d probably be better off without trying to satisfy me, with my sense of humor. There are things that I have said that are funny to me, but they weren’t to somebody in the press. So that hasn’t worked to my benefit.
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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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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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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 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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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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