Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
BOBBY KNIGHTI don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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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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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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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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Pat has been instrumental in what we’ve done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we’ve done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that’s Pat.
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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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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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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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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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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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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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