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.
BOBBY KNIGHTIn order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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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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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I’ve always been too confrontational, especially when I know I’m right.
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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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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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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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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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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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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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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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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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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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