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.
BOBBY KNIGHTBasketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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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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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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Practice structure determines success.
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A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven’t been as well taught.
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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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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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And I guarantee you, I’m a better athlete than any f***g body writing. To this day, they don’t want to play tennis with me. The don’t want to play me in golf. They don’t want to f***g run with me
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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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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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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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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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