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 KNIGHTEverybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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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 overall point is that ‘one and dones’ are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I apologize.
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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’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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You see we’ve got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he’s still coaching. I really don’t understand that.
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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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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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I also believe that when something negative comes out about you in the media, that’s only one person’s opinion. These guys sometimes believe they’ve been ordained from on high to give the general opinion of the populace, and that just isn’t the case.
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass.
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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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