Bobby Knight

Basketball Player

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Bobby Knight is a basketball player, best known for Knight.

Quick Facts About Bobby Knight

Profession: Basketball Player
Notable works: Knight

About Bobby Knight

Robert Montgomery Knight was an American men's college basketball coach. Nicknamed "the General", he won 902 NCAA Division I men's basketball games, a record at the time of his retirement, and sixth all-time record at the time of his death.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Bobby Knight · Page 6

I've never felt my job was to win basketball games - rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was…

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Backgrounds

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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…

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Believe

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We talk in coaching about "winners" - kids, and I've had a lot of them, who just will not allow themselves or…

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Coaches

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If you're not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.

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Careful

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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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Adversity

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I think that to stop an offense, you must go to the heart of that offense. If it is a particular move,…

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Basketball

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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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Basketball

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In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them

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Achieve

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I learned at an early stage that the most important thing I could do for my players was to give them the…

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Beat

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When somebody asks about the greatest players in history, I start with Bill Russell. More than the best player is the MVP,…

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Best

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I'm not sure what a conservative is. I don't know whether a conservative is a guy that goes to bed too early…

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Early

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What the hell is a Republican? What the hell is a Democrat? I don't care. I've always urged people to make sure…

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Don-t-care

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I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation.

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Believe

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It is better to anticipate than to react.

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Anticipate

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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began

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Basketball

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We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.

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Basketball

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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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Education

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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…

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Administrators

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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.

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Basketball

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“The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.”

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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.

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Education

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Everybody has an opportunity in America. I don't care if guys whine and complain about this or that. You know, no country…

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America

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When we're playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man's job to stop the…

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Balls

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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…

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Coaching

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I don't think I have ever been out of control.

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Power

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