I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
BOBBY KNIGHTFailure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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Perform drills that force your players to think
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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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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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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You see we’ve got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he’s still coaching. I really don’t understand that.
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As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It’s conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.
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I’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
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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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I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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I’ve never felt my job was to win basketball games – rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.
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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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