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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
Bobby Knight
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Bobby Knight
Age: 83
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
Basketball Coach
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Massillon
Ohio
Robert Montgomery Knight
Bobby Knight
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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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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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Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.
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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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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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I think that it's perhaps harder to learn from victory than it is from defeat. I think that we don't want defeat. We don't want defeat in sport. We don't want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What's going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?
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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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Positive wish: 'The sun will come out tomorrow.' Negative reality: 'Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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.
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Do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done the best way it can be done, and do it that way every time.
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I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.
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I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. 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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Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
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I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
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I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
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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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We just got our ass beat by a much better team. It happens once in a while. Does every team win every game?
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I don't intend to retire.
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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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