Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
BOBBY KNIGHTMost people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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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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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’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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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven’t been as well taught.
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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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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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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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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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You remember when you were a kid growing up, and believed in Santa Claus? There’s not much difference between Santa Claus and me today, you know. We’re two overweight lovable guys that kids really enjoy.
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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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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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