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Bobby Knight

A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven’t been as well taught.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Competition Giving People Teaching
The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Country Long People Red
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Discipline Knowing Way
Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Country Games People Sports
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
BOBBY KNIGHT

Day Guarantee Run Tennis Writing
For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Awards Favoritism Rewards
Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Desire Failure
People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Change People Years
Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Leadership Motivational
As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Games Team Winning
You can’t imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, “God, you treat those assholes like I’d like to treat them.” And my question is, “Then why don’t you?”.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Numbers People Sports
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Home Running Winning
Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Art Country Games People Sports Writing
The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Practice Running
The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
BOBBY KNIGHT

Practice Reason Volleyball
From 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.”
BOBBY KNIGHT

College Knight Teaching

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