Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought… about potential pitfalls.
BOBBY KNIGHTThe will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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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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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that’s going to happen, let’s make it happen.
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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.
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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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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 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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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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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.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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