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.
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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You remember when you were a kid growing up, and believed in Santa Claus? There’s not much difference between Santa Claus and me today, you know. We’re two overweight lovable guys that kids really enjoy.
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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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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.
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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Practice structure determines success.
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I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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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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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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I’m not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn’t have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.
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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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In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
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