I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
BOBBY KNIGHTMental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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I’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
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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.
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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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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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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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Offense is not equal opportunity
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As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It’s conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.
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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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I don’t intend to retire.
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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’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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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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