Practice structure determines success.
BOBBY KNIGHTThis 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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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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I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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I’m not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn’t have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.
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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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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 will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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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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You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.
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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.
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I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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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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What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots
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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’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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I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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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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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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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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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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