The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
BOBBY KNIGHTMental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you’re a part of them and they’re a part of you.
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I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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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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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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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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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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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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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
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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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I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
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