124 result(s) for Bobby Knight Quotes.
"The only way to get a good leader is to be a good leader."
"I think that the best way to end up in a situation like this is to establish a system of values."
"Success is not about being better than someone else. It's about being better than you used to be."
"You can’t be afraid to make mistakes. That’s the only way you learn."
"I think it’s important to be able to do something other than just basketball."
"Discipline is doing what needs to be done, even if you don’t want to do it."
"While you are not going to win every game, you need to put the effort into winning each game."
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"You need to be extremely tough to be successful."
"If you want to play, you have to pay the price."
"A coach is someone who can give you direction and support at the same time."
"Leadership is not just about being in charge, but being responsible for what you lead."
"Everybody wants to win, but not everybody is willing to prepare to win."
"Character is doing the right thing when nobody is watching."
"Loyalty is a two-way street."
"Mistakes are part of the learning process."
"The greatest thrill in sports is winning."
"It is important to have a strong work ethic and to be disciplined."
"The key to success is hard work and preparation."
"Make each day your masterpiece."
"You have to be willing to pay the price for success."
"Your legacy is what you do for others."
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"To be successful, you have to be able to deal with failure."
"A good leader encourages followers to be their best."
"Winning is all about the preparation."
"You have to have confidence in yourself and your abilities."
"Above all else, you have to have a commitment to excellence."
"When you’re in a position of leadership, you can’t be afraid to take risks."
"I think that the biggest problem in sports today is that the players do not understand what a privilege it is to represent their school, their team, and their community."
"Discipline is doing what you don't want to do, when you don't want to do it."
"It's not about the coach. The coach is important, but it's not about the coach. It's about the players."
"The game of basketball has a lot of rules of failure, and it’s your job to learn how to deal with those made-up rules."
"The hardest thing is to make something that seems effortless."
"I don't think winning is the end all. I think winning is a by-product of preparation."
"The most important thing is to have a good team. The second most important thing is to have a good team. The third most important thing is to have a good team."
"I don’t care about the score of the game; I care about how we function as a team."
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"Everyone wants to be great until it’s time to do what great requires."
"You must have the courage to be willing to fall and act anyway."
"There is no greater joy than that of a coach winning a championship."
"I think that the way to become a better player is to be a better teammate."
"To me, success is not about the outcome, it’s about the effort."
"Too many people, when they get in a position of strength, forget about the people who brought them into it."
"If you want to change the world, you need to start with yourself."
"Training is not about being competitive, it is about becoming the best version of yourself."
"You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."
"You learn more from losing than from winning. You learn how to keep going."
"A team can be more than the sum of its parts."
"Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted."
"You can’t change the past, but you can change where you’re going."
"You get what you emphasize."
"I always tell my players, 'You can be a great loser.' But you've got to know how to accept it."
"The second you step on the court, it’s a competition."
"Happiness is not about winning. It’s about trying to get better."
"If you're going to be a leader, you have to prove it by doing something."
"The reason I was successful is because I love what I do and, at the end of the day, I want to do it the best I can."
"Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it."
"You can't make a great play unless you have great players to play with."
"Discipline is doing what you don't want to do when you don't want to do it."
"You want your team to have a personality, and it starts with how hard they work."
"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing."
"You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose."
"A team should be able to change its approach depending on the situation."
"In basketball, when you have two or three players that are really talented, and they can take over a game, it makes a big difference."
"A lot of coaches, they have great talent but they don’t have discipline. I think discipline is surviving through the hard times."
"You cannot defend against a full-on attack from a high offense that sacrifices everything for victory."
"I've been a recipient of great opportunities and great experiences. But I think every opportunity you have to do something, you're also given a responsibility to do it."
"The most important thing is to keep your team going, to keep them alive no matter what happens."
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."
"You should always have a plan. Failing to plan is planning to fail."
"There are three things that can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad."
"It's not about the talent you have, it's about how hard you work."
"The only way to get better is to play against better people."
"The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare."
"Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win."
"I think that the most important thing is to be honest with yourself."
"When my time on Earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass."
"Discipline is doing what you don’t want to do when you don’t want to do it."
"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."
"You don’t get what you deserve, you get what you earn."
"The only thing a player has to do to get better is to put the time in."
"It’s not about what you do, it’s about how you do it."
"Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We."
"There’s a fine line between your ego and your excellence."
"The great thing about coaching is that you get to touch the lives of the young people you work with, and they, in turn, touch you."
"Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard."
"I don’t care what you do. I care how you do it."
"The mark of a great leader is the ability to look beyond the game."
"You have to be able to be able to make those tough decisions."
"Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision."
"You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."
"There are only two seasons: Winter and baseball."
"You need to be able to take criticism without it changing your opinion of yourself."
"Every time you win, you don’t give yourself a pat on the back; the next time you've got to go back to work."
"The ability to learn is the most important gift you can give a player."
"Coaching is not just about winning; it's about teaching life skills."
"The most important thing is that I believe in what I’m doing."
"The moment that you let the other guy see that you feel fear, you have lost."
"You want to be a winner, you gotta do what it takes to win."
"It's not what you've done in the past; it's what is down the road that matters."
"I’m not always right, but I’m never wrong."
"The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important."
"I think that you have to take the talent that you have and enhance it."
"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worthy of reading or do things worthy of writing."
"You don't have to be good to start; you just have to start to be good."
"Discipline is doing what you don't want to do but doing it like you love it."
"Most people have a tendency to think the worst of others."
"I think the best way is to work hard and take care of your responsibilities."
"The ideal situation is to be able to confront the other person and come to a resolution."
"A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want."
"You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."
"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing."
"I think that you learn about people when you see them under stress."
"The greatest player that has ever played the game of basketball is the person that can help his team the most."
"A lot of times, the greatest kindness we can do is to tell the truth, rather than what people want to hear."
"You have to be a little humble. You have to be able to ask for help."
"The best teams, the best athletes, are the ones that have the deepest sense of commitment to each other."
"You have to trust yourself and your teammates to be successful."
"Great players are not great teammates. Great teammates are great players."
"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit."
"There is no substitute for hard work."
"The more you practice, the luckier you get."
"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."
"In every situation, you have choices. You have to choose how you react to that situation."
"You can’t measure a player with stats alone. Character is essential."
"Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."
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