What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots
BOBBY KNIGHTI sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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You remember when you were a kid growing up, and believed in Santa Claus? There’s not much difference between Santa Claus and me today, you know. We’re two overweight lovable guys that kids really enjoy.
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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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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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Practice structure determines success.
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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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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.
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As I’ve said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators – not recently – fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
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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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If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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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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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.
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From the time I started teaching, when I was 21, I’ve always signed my name Bob Knight. My college coach called me Bobby, still does. But I have never introduced myself to anybody in my adult life in any way other than, “I’m Bob Knight.”
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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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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I don’t intend to retire.
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There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I’ve always been too confrontational, especially when I know I’m right.
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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought… about potential pitfalls.
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I tell you what really fries my ass. When somebody gets on me for the way I look. Fat. Overweight. Well, I may be overweight. But I’m sure not fat.
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Perform drills that force your players to think
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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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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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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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