I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
BOBBY KNIGHTEverybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It’s conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.
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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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You can’t imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, “God, you treat those assholes like I’d like to treat them.” And my question is, “Then why don’t you?”.
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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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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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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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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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This 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.
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And I guarantee you, I’m a better athlete than any f***g body writing. To this day, they don’t want to play tennis with me. The don’t want to play me in golf. They don’t want to f***g run with me
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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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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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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Practice structure determines success.
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