Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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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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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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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My overall point is that ‘one and dones’ are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I apologize.
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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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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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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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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I also believe that when something negative comes out about you in the media, that’s only one person’s opinion. These guys sometimes believe they’ve been ordained from on high to give the general opinion of the populace, and that just isn’t the case.
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Practice structure determines success.
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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