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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Bobby Knight

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
Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Discipline Knowing Way
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
A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Coach Coaching Should
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
If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Country Games People Son Sports
A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Running Team
Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Game Men Passing
Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Desire Failure
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 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
The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Practice Running
Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Inspirational Learn Right Time
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
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
I’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Country Games People Sports Volleyball

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