The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
BOBBY KNIGHTI was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you’re a part of them and they’re a part of you.
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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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As I’ve said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators – not recently – fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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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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When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass.
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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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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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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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Son, my name isn’t Knight to you, it’s coach Knight or it’s Mr. Knight. I don’t call people by their last name and neither should you.
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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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