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.
BOBBY KNIGHTIt is better to anticipate than to react.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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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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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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I don’t intend to retire.
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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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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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I’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
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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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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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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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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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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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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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