The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
BOBBY KNIGHTIt 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average.
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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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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.
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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they’ll get rid of me, too.
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Perform drills that force your players to think
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A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven’t been as well taught.
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I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
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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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If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
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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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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.
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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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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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