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
BOBBY KNIGHTPerform drills that force your players to think
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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.
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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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’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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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.
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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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You can’t imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, “God, you treat those assholes like I’d like to treat them.” And my question is, “Then why don’t you?”.
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You see we’ve got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he’s still coaching. I really don’t understand that.
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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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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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