Everybody hears, but few listen.
BOBBY KNIGHTDiscipline 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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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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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was ‘It will be O.K.’ I would wonder, ‘How the hell is it going to be O.K.?’ The worst word in the English language is ‘hope.’
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I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
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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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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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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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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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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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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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Positive wish: ‘The sun will come out tomorrow.’ Negative reality: ‘Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.
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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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