I also believe that when something negative comes out about you in the media, that's only one person's opinion. These guys sometimes believe they've been ordained from on high to give the general opinion of the populace, and that just isn't the case.

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Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.

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The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

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

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It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt that this word is the most ill-defined in all of our language. My definition isas follows: 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it it that way all the time.

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When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass.

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If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

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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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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.

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Offense at Indiana is not equal opportunity. Those players who shoot best are going to shoot most. It is important that every player know his offensive limitations. It is also important that a player know who the best shooter is on the team. When a passer has the option of passing to two players, I expect him to get the ball to the best shooter. I continually stop practice and ask players who the best shooter is and I expect them to know. It is important that you get the ball to your best shooter.

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BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.

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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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Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.

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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.

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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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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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Practice structure determines success.

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Offense is not equal opportunity

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

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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 center. It's the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside.

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