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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.

Bobby Knight

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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Coaching Sports Team
Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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Basketball Leadership Motivational
What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots
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Basketball Country Games People Sports
The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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Practice Reason Volleyball
As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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Games Team Winning
All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average.
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Kids Morning Running
I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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Basketball Morning Sports
It is better to anticipate than to react.
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Anticipate Better React
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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Basketball College Player
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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Country Games Jobs Media People Sports
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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Basketball Country Games Growing People Sports
For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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Awards Favoritism Rewards
Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought… about potential pitfalls.
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Fixing Needs Pitfalls
Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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Basketball May
Son, my name isn’t Knight to you, it’s coach Knight or it’s Mr. Knight. I don’t call people by their last name and neither should you.
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Basketball Knights Son
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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Basketball Sorry Upset
The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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Basketball Inspirational Ladders
We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
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Basketball Hard Hockey Work
If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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Fame Opinion Popularity
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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Home Running Winning
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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Athlete Basketball Thinking
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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Deal Defeat Game might Thing
I tell you what really fries my ass. When somebody gets on me for the way I look. Fat. Overweight. Well, I may be overweight. But I’m sure not fat.
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Basketball Running Writing
As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It’s conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.
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Basketball Defense Offense Two
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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Basketball Inspirational Sports
When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was ‘It will be O.K.’ I would wonder, ‘How the hell is it going to be O.K.?’ The worst word in the English language is ‘hope.’
BOBBY KNIGHT

Coaching Firsts Thinking
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Better Happen More Sport Well

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