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.
BOBBY KNIGHTThere are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions that are a lot alike. There aren’t a hell of a lot of really good coaches or writers.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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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 don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
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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.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that’s going to happen, let’s make it happen.
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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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