Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
BOBBY KNIGHTEverybody hears, but few listen.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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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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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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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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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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You see we’ve got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he’s still coaching. I really don’t understand that.
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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 don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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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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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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As 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.
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