Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
BOBBY KNIGHTAll 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven’t called walking for 20 years, now you don’t know what it is. When you call walking, you’re about half right.
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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.
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Perform drills that force your players to think
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Offense is not equal opportunity
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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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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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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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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Discipline 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.
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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If 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.
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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