Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
BOBBY KNIGHTEverybody hears, but few listen.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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Perform drills that force your players to think
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Offense is not equal opportunity
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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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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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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My definition isas follows: 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it it that way all the time.
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You can’t imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, “God, you treat those assholes like I’d like to treat them.” And my question is, “Then why don’t you?”.
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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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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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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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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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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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