Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.
BOBBY KNIGHTI always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Positive wish: ‘The sun will come out tomorrow.’ Negative reality: ‘Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.
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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.
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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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Perform drills that force your players to think
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I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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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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I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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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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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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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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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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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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Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
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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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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven’t called walking for 20 years, now you don’t know what it is. When you call walking, you’re about half right.
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Offense is not equal opportunity
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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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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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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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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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