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.
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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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 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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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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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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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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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, ‘He’s saying God screwed the pitcher.
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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven’t been as well taught.
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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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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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Perform drills that force your players to think
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There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions that are a lot alike. There aren’t a hell of a lot of really good coaches or writers.
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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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