Superiority and success doesn’t favor good effort or self-esteem… The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.
BOBBY KNIGHTI don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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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 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 red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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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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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.
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Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
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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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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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I don’t intend to retire.
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In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
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My overall point is that ‘one and dones’ are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I apologize.
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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.
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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
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