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.
BOBBY KNIGHTIf 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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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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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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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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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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I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they’ll get rid of me, too.
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Practice structure determines 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’m not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn’t have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.
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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’ve never felt my job was to win basketball games – rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.
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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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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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