It is better to anticipate than to react.
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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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought… about potential pitfalls.
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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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I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
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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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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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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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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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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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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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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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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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