I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
BOBBY KNIGHTYou 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?”.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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As I’ve said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators – not recently – fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
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All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average.
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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When a passer has the option of passing to two players, I expect him to get the ball to the best shooter. I continually stop practice and ask players who the best shooter is and I expect them to know. It is important that you get the ball to your best shooter.
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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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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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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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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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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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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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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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