In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
BOBBY KNIGHTPositive wish: ‘The sun will come out tomorrow.’ Negative reality: ‘Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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When a passer has the option of passing to two players, I expect him to get the ball to the best shooter. I continually stop practice and ask players who the best shooter is and I expect them to know. It is important that you get the ball to your best shooter.
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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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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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BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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I don’t intend to retire.
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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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 don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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Perform drills that force your players to think
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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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I’ve never felt my job was to win basketball games – rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.
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