The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
BOBBY KNIGHTMy 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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.
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My overall point is that ‘one and dones’ are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I apologize.
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Offense at Indiana is not equal opportunity. Those players who shoot best are going to shoot most. It is important that every player know his offensive limitations. It is also important that a player know who the best shooter is on the team.
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
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And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
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Practice structure determines success.
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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 we’re playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man’s job to stop the center. It’s the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside.
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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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At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven’t called walking for 20 years, now you don’t know what it is. When you call walking, you’re about half right.
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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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