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Practice structure determines success.

Bobby Knight

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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Country Driven Games Hell People Sports
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Jobs Winning
I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Believe Luck Preparation
I’m not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn’t have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Athlete Basketball Thinking
I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
BOBBY KNIGHT

People Worried Worry
Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball May
Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Motivational Sports
The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Inspirational Life Motivational
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
So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, ‘He’s saying God screwed the pitcher.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Home Running Winning
Superiority and success doesn’t favor good effort or self-esteem… The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Self Esteem Success Winning
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
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Better Happen More Sport Well
In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Nba Order
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
I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Coaches Games Sports Teacher
For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Awards Favoritism Rewards
Offense at Indiana is not equal opportunity. Those players who shoot best are going to shoot most. It is important that every player know his offensive limitations. It is also important that a player know who the best shooter is on the team.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Opportunity Team
BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Deeper Higher Phd
Good basketball always starts with good defense!
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Country Defense Games People Sports
I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Night Practice
Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Leadership Motivational
Perform drills that force your players to think
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Player Thinking
I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Art Sports Writing
The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Inspirational Ladders
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Country Games Guy People Sports Years
I’ve always had an a$$-to-the-brain theory. When a player’s a$$ gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, Get me off of here.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Benches Brain Player

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