We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
BOBBY KNIGHTI 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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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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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.
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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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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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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
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You remember when you were a kid growing up, and believed in Santa Claus? There’s not much difference between Santa Claus and me today, you know. We’re two overweight lovable guys that kids really enjoy.
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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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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.
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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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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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’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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We don’t want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What’s going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?
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