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.
BOBBY KNIGHTVictory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Practice structure determines success.
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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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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I’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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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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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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I don’t intend to retire.
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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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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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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 biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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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.
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