Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought… about potential pitfalls.
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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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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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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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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You see we’ve got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he’s still coaching. I really don’t understand that.
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven’t called walking for 20 years, now you don’t know what it is. When you call walking, you’re about half right.
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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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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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I’ve always had an a$$-to-the-brain theory. When a player’s a$$ gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, Get me off of here.
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Offense at Indiana is not equal opportunity. Those players who shoot best are going to shoot most. It is important that every player know his offensive limitations. It is also important that a player know who the best shooter is on the team.
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average.
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