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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.

Bobby Knight

As I’ve said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators – not recently – fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Real Sports
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Self Esteem Success Winning
Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought… about potential pitfalls.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Fixing Needs Pitfalls
Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Practice Team Want
Everybody hears, but few listen.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Everybody Listen
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.’
BOBBY KNIGHT

Coaching Firsts Thinking
All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Education Sports
And I guarantee you, I’m a better athlete than any f***g body writing. To this day, they don’t want to play tennis with me. The don’t want to play me in golf. They don’t want to f***g run with me
BOBBY KNIGHT

Day Guarantee Run Tennis Writing
I’m not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn’t have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Athlete Basketball Thinking
You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Balls Play Sports
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Definition Follow Ingredient Parent Time
I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Sports Thinking
In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Nba Order
I’d probably be better off without trying to satisfy me, with my sense of humor. There are things that I have said that are funny to me, but they weren’t to somebody in the press. So that hasn’t worked to my benefit.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Benefits Humor Sense Trying
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Inspirational Sports
Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Leadership Motivational

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