It is better to anticipate than to react.
BOBBY KNIGHTAll of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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I also believe that when something negative comes out about you in the media, that’s only one person’s opinion. These guys sometimes believe they’ve been ordained from on high to give the general opinion of the populace, and that just isn’t the case.
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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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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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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they’ll get rid of me, too.
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There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I’ve always been too confrontational, especially when I know I’m right.
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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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In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
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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’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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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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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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