It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt that this word is the most ill-defined in all of our language.
BOBBY KNIGHTAs 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.
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Pat has been instrumental in what we’ve done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we’ve done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that’s Pat.
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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought… about potential pitfalls.
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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they’ll get rid of me, too.
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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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