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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.’

Bobby Knight

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

Discipline Leadership Sports
What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Country Games People Sports
I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Fake Game Wonder
Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Leadership Motivational
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Inspirational Sports
We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Hard Hockey Work
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Country Games Growing People Sports
There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions that are a lot alike. There aren’t a hell of a lot of really good coaches or writers.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Country Games Jobs Media People Sports
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
Offense is not equal opportunity
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Game Offense Opportunity
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Kids Morning Running
My definition isas follows: 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it it that way all the time.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Definition Follow Ingredient Parent Time
When we’re playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man’s job to stop the center. It’s the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Jobs Team
To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Practice Preparation
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Optimism Reality Wish
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Benefits Humor Sense Trying

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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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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