In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
BOBBY KNIGHTIf I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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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Pat has been instrumental in what we’ve done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we’ve done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that’s Pat.
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Superiority and success doesn’t favor good effort or self-esteem… The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.
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The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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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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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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.
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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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I’d probably be better off without trying to satisfy me, with my sense of humor. There are things that I have said that are funny to me, but they weren’t to somebody in the press. So that hasn’t worked to my benefit.
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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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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you’re a part of them and they’re a part of you.
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