I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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.
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Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
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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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In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
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And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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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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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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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If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.
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All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average.
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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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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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I don’t intend to retire.
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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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