Bobby Knight Quotes About Winning

Quotes about: Winning

• Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

  Bobby Knight

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

• Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Winning

• I've never felt my job was to win basketball games - rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Jobs, Winning

• If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well as anybody can. I would just cheat, get some money from a lot of people around Indianapolis who want to run the operation that way, and just go out and get the best basketball players I can. Then we'd beat everybody.

  Bobby Knight

  Inspirational, Basketball, Running

• We just got our ass beat by a much better team. It happens once in a while. Does every team win every game?

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Team, Winning

• During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

  Bobby Knight

  Team, Winning, Texas

• As his team prepares, a coach's entire being must be concentrated on winning games.

  Bobby Knight

  Team, Winning, Games

• 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.

  Bobby Knight

  Success, Self Esteem, Winning

• We talk in coaching about "winners" - kids, and I've had a lot of them, who just will not allow themselves or their team to lose. Coaches call that a will to win. I don't. I think that puts the emphasis in the wrong place. Everybody has a will to win. What's far more important is having the will to prepare to win.

  Bobby Knight

  Team, Kids, Winning

• So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, 'He's saying God screwed the pitcher.

  Bobby Knight

  Running, Home, Winning

  Bob Knight, Bob Hammel (2013). “The Power of Negative Thinking: An Unconventional Approach to Achieving Positive Results”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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