In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
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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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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You 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.
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As I’ve said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators – not recently – fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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You see we’ve got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he’s still coaching. I really don’t understand that.
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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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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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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass.
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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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Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that’s going to happen, let’s make it happen.
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It’s conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.
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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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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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