In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
BOBBY KNIGHTPerform drills that force your players to think
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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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.
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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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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought… about potential pitfalls.
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I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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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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When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass.
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When we’re playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man’s job to stop the center. It’s the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside.
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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.
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Perform drills that force your players to think
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I don’t intend to retire.
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Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
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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.
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