Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
BOBBY KNIGHTEverybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I’ve always been too confrontational, especially when I know I’m right.
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A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven’t been as well taught.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.
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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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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’ve always had an a$$-to-the-brain theory. When a player’s a$$ gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, Get me off of here.
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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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The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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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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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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