As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
BOBBY KNIGHTAs 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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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.”
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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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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.
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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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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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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
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I don’t intend to retire.
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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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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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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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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.
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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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A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven’t been as well taught.
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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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The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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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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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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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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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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