As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
BOBBY KNIGHTWe should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.
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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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I don’t intend to retire.
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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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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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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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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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When a passer has the option of passing to two players, I expect him to get the ball to the best shooter. I continually stop practice and ask players who the best shooter is and I expect them to know. It is important that you get the ball to your best shooter.
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I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
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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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