Perform drills that force your players to think
BOBBY KNIGHTAs 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions that are a lot alike. There aren’t a hell of a lot of really good coaches or writers.
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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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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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Pat has been instrumental in what we’ve done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we’ve done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that’s Pat.
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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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Son, my name isn’t Knight to you, it’s coach Knight or it’s Mr. Knight. I don’t call people by their last name and neither should you.
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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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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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that’s going to happen, let’s make it happen.
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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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