In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
BOBBY KNIGHTIf universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.
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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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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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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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
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I’d probably be better off without trying to satisfy me, with my sense of humor. There are things that I have said that are funny to me, but they weren’t to somebody in the press. So that hasn’t worked to my benefit.
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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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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots
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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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You can’t imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, “God, you treat those assholes like I’d like to treat them.” And my question is, “Then why don’t you?”.
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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 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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My definition isas follows: 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it it that way all the time.
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