Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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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 sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
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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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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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It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt that this word is the most ill-defined in all of our language.
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If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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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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The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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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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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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A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven’t been as well taught.
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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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