The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
BOBBY KNIGHTGood basketball always starts with good defense!
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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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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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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In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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Perform drills that force your players to think
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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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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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Practice structure determines success.
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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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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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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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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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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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