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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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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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’ve always had an a$$-to-the-brain theory. When a player’s a$$ gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, Get me off of here.
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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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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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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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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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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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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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Positive wish: ‘The sun will come out tomorrow.’ Negative reality: ‘Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.
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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 structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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