Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
BOBBY KNIGHTPerform drills that force your players to think
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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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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You can’t imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, “God, you treat those assholes like I’d like to treat them.” And my question is, “Then why don’t you?”.
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When a passer has the option of passing to two players, I expect him to get the ball to the best shooter. I continually stop practice and ask players who the best shooter is and I expect them to know. It is important that you get the ball to your best shooter.
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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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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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Offense is not equal opportunity
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I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
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My definition isas follows: 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it it that way all the time.
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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was ‘It will be O.K.’ I would wonder, ‘How the hell is it going to be O.K.?’ The worst word in the English language is ‘hope.’
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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