Quotes from Bob Knight

You can always turn no into yes, and usually make people happy, but it's a lot harder – sometimes too late - to change yes to no.

Having the will to win is not enough. Everyone has that. What matters is having the will to prepare to win.

What vulnerabilities do we have and what can we do to minimize them, to get around them, to survive them—and give ourselves a better chance to win?

That's the true mark of a champion—forgetting the last victory and preparing for the next one. And that one comment should be on every coach's wall: The first job that we have today is putting yesterday aside to be remembered later. (Tony LaRussa, World Series Champion 2011)

Early failure is usually better than early success, because the lesson in humility lasts a long time and makes you more effective over the long term.

Before you can inspire your players to "win," you have to show them how not to lose.

The first job that we have today is putting yesterday aside to be remembered later.

Discipline is recognizing what has to be done, doing it as well as you can do it, and doing it that way all the time.

Wanting alone doesn't get anything done.

A coach should never forget to compliment his players on a well-played victory, but shouldn't hesitate to tell them when they've played poorly—in a loss or a win.

The mark of success, or failure, in handling victory is what happens the next time out.

One game is not a season. Pleasure, enjoyment, success are not short-term. Success is a grind. It's perseverance; it is operating at a high level of performance on a constant basis.

Coaching is leadership, and leadership is leadership, whether in a gym, an office, a classroom, or a family.

You have to develop enough common sense to know what you can't do and focus on what you can. Know your limits. If you can't do it, don't, and say so

There isn't always an absolute right way and a wrong way to do things, but there usually is a better way, a high-percentage way. The positive thinker generally feels that his way will be the right way and nothing will go wrong, if he just believes. The negative thinker disbelieves. He takes every precaution to prevent the wrong thing from happening, and in doing so has a much better chance of things turning out right in the end.

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