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.
BOBBY KNIGHTIt is better to anticipate than to react.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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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.
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As I’ve said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators – not recently – fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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Practice structure determines success.
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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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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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Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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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I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.
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And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
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Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.
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I’d probably be better off without trying to satisfy me, with my sense of humor. There are things that I have said that are funny to me, but they weren’t to somebody in the press. So that hasn’t worked to my benefit.
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