To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
BOBBY KNIGHTFrom the time I started teaching, when I was 21, I’ve always signed my name Bob Knight. My college coach called me Bobby, still does. But I have never introduced myself to anybody in my adult life in any way other than, “I’m Bob Knight.”
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven’t called walking for 20 years, now you don’t know what it is. When you call walking, you’re about half right.
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When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was ‘It will be O.K.’ I would wonder, ‘How the hell is it going to be O.K.?’ The worst word in the English language is ‘hope.’
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Positive 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.
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This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they’ll get rid of me, too.
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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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Perform drills that force your players to think
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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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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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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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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought… about potential pitfalls.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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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Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
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I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
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