A.N. Knight Quotes

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.

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

Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination.

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

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.

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

The best revenge in the world is success.

Play by the rules, but be ferocious.

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

You've got to stop whipping a dead horse sometime.

Sometimes the best things are right in front of you; it just takes some time to see them.

If you had to have a diploma or a GED to collect unemployment, you'd see a lot more kids staying in school.

It's alright to be Goliath but always act like David.

No matter what it is, I think people want the answer they want, they don't want the truth.

I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love.

Dream audaciously. Have the courage to fail forward. Act with urgency.

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

I believe in love that's fun, that is caring, giving, and that is honest.

The Labour Party's election manifesto is the longest suicide note in history.

Talent like Michael's is rare. I feel so privileged to have known him and so look forward to honouring his memory in what is going to be the biggest and only tribute to this great showman.

Never waste any time you can spend sleeping.

Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity.

It's easy to grin when your ship comes in and you've got the stock market beat. But the man worthwhile is the man who can smile when his shorts are too tight in the seat.

You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.

For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life - it's what helps you survive.

My soul will find yours.

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

Back in the day, if you did any commercials or were affiliated with a company you were a sellout. Now it's kind of normal to do that.

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

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

A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public.

How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat?

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.

Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.

Dare to take chances, lest you leave your talent buried in the ground.

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.

I think the biggest misconception about me probably is ... I don't prey on the weak. I ain't a bully, but I ain't no saint, either.

Make history or be a part of it.

Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day.

Nike is a marketing-oriented company, and the product is our most important marketing tool.

We used to think that everything started in the lab. Now we realize that everything spins off the consumer.

I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street.

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.

No person ever gave me nothing but God.

I ain't no gangster. I'm a grown man trying to run a business.

If you wanna cross somebody, then do that. Don't act like it wasn't you

A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.

I only know what I heard and what I read. I had no involvement.

I've always had an a$$-to-the-brain theory. When a player's a$$ gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, Get me off of here.

There's no difference in dealing with the music business with the majors than any other competition. The music business is way more cutthroat than any other business.