You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.
BOBBY KNIGHTI’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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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Perform drills that force your players to think
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The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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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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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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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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Practice structure determines success.
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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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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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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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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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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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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.
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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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