I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
BOBBY KNIGHTSuperiority 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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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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You can’t imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, “God, you treat those assholes like I’d like to treat them.” And my question is, “Then why don’t you?”.
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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’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
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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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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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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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Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that’s going to happen, let’s make it happen.
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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 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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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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I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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