Superiority and success doesn’t favor good effort or self-esteem… The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.
BOBBY KNIGHTThe will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
-
-
The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
BOBBY KNIGHT -
Offense is not equal opportunity
BOBBY KNIGHT -
Practice structure determines success.
BOBBY KNIGHT -
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT -
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?
BOBBY KNIGHT -
In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
BOBBY KNIGHT -
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT -
I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
BOBBY KNIGHT -
From the time I started teaching, when I was 21, I’ve always signed my name Bob Knight. My college coach called me Bobby, still does. But I have never introduced myself to anybody in my adult life in any way other than, “I’m Bob Knight.”
BOBBY KNIGHT -
As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It’s conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.
BOBBY KNIGHT -
For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
BOBBY KNIGHT -
To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
BOBBY KNIGHT -
Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
BOBBY KNIGHT -
Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
BOBBY KNIGHT -
Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
BOBBY KNIGHT