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It 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.

Bobby Knight

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.”
BOBBY KNIGHT

College Knight Teaching
Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Discipline Knowing Way
I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Coaches Games Sports Teacher
When a passer has the option of passing to two players, I expect him to get the ball to the best shooter. I continually stop practice and ask players who the best shooter is and I expect them to know. It is important that you get the ball to your best shooter.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Passing People Practice Stop
Pat has been instrumental in what we’ve done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we’ve done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that’s Pat.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Hands Selfish
Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Art Country Games People Sports Writing
Superiority and success doesn’t favor good effort or self-esteem… The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Self Esteem Success Winning
A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven’t been as well taught.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Competition Giving People Teaching
The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Practice Running
As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Games Team Winning
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
BOBBY KNIGHT

Day Guarantee Run Tennis Writing
Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Desire Failure
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.’
BOBBY KNIGHT

Coaching Firsts Thinking
My overall point is that ‘one and dones’ are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I apologize.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball College Player
I’ve never felt my job was to win basketball games – rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Jobs Winning
If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Fame Opinion Popularity

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