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 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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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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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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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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We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
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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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I’ve always had an a$$-to-the-brain theory. When a player’s a$$ gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, Get me off of here.
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Offense is not equal opportunity
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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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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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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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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 sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
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