I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
BOBBY KNIGHTIf you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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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’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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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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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And I guarantee you, I’m a better athlete than any f***g body writing. To this day, they don’t want to play tennis with me. The don’t want to play me in golf. They don’t want to f***g run with me
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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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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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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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As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It’s conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.
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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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