The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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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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.
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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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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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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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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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Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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I tell you what really fries my ass. When somebody gets on me for the way I look. Fat. Overweight. Well, I may be overweight. But I’m sure not fat.
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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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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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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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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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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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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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